50 Conservatives desert Sanin for Santos
Fifty high-profile members of the Conservative Party on Wednesday announced their decision to support Partido de la U candidate Juan Manuel Santos’ bid for the Colombian presidency. The announcement comes…
Fifty high-profile members of the Conservative Party on Wednesday announced their decision to support Partido de la U candidate Juan Manuel Santos’ bid for the Colombian presidency. The announcement comes…
In an operation called “Patria 15,” police on Wednesday seized 152 properties and other posessions, with a combined value over $32 million, from two of Colombia’s most wanted drug traffickers,…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on Tuesday approved the extradition to the U.S. of Margarita Pabon, former legal advisor to pyramid scheme DMG, on charges related to the business’ money laundering activities. The…
The Colombian government promised to provide aid to over 800 people from nearly 250 families in the central department of Antioquia, who were reportedly displaced last week by the FARC.…
The death toll from an Easter Sunday bus crash on the Bogota-Medellin highway rose to 25 on Monday, as the bus company admits that the vehicle was probably travelling over-capacity.…
Presidential candidate Sergio Fajardo declared that he is likely to accept Green Party candidate Antanas Mockus’ offer of a vice-presidential role in his campaign. The two candidates made the announcement…
The local Ombudsman for Colombia’s Meta department said Thursday that the national government is not doing anything to protect sixteen spokesmen for displaced communities, following a rise in death threats…
Alejandra Barrios, director of the Bogota-based Electoral Observation Mission, said on Wednesday that Colombia’s March 14th legislative elections suffered from “severe irregularities.” Barrios said that the delays in announcing results,…
A Gallup poll of voter intention for the Colombian presidential election in May finds that a majority of people plan to vote for conservative-leaning candidates Juan Manuel Santos or Noemi…