Former M-19 guerrilla and unsuccessful Polo Democratico presidential candidate Gustavo Petro Tweeted that ex-members of the demobilized rebel organization should increase their security measures, following the conviction of retired Colombia army…
President Alvaro Uribe convened an emergency meeting on Thursday with Colombia’s high military command to discuss the fallout of the 30 year prison sentence handed down to retired Colonel Alfonso Plazas…
The Colombian Senate on Wednesday officially condemned the U.S. state of Arizona’s controversial law that requires immigrants to carry documents verifying their immigration status. According to a press release on the…
Investigations into the “Los Combas” brothers drug cartel’s money laundering activities landed a group of Bogota soccer team investors in hot water, following the arrest of four of the drug trafficking…
The National Electoral Council (CNE) officially declared Partido de la U candidate Juan Manuel Santos the winner of Colombia’s May 30 first round presidential elections, despite allegations by independent researchers…
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who arrived in Colombia Tuesday night, met with presidential candidates Juan Manuel Santos and Antanas Mockus on Wednesday, reports El Tiempo. Clinton met first with Partido…
Two thousand at-risk teenagers were sworn in Tuesday to the Colombian police’s “Promotores de Vida” program, aimed at offering youths a better future in exchange for helping the police in…
Colombian intelligence agency DAS challenged a report linking Johan Van der Sloot, a Dutchman arrested Thursday on charges of murdering a 21-year-old Peruvian, with the disappearance of two young girls…
Colombian businessmen aired their frustrations and called for the U.S. to pass the pending free trade agreement (FTA) between the two countries, as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton began…