Less than half of Colombians believe that formal peace talks with the ELN, the country’s last standing Marxist rebel group, will succeed, according to an opinion poll released on Thursday. The poll,…
Colombia’s foreign debt reached $116 billion in October, equivalent to 40% of the country’s GDP, according to a report published Wednesday by the country’s state-run central bank. As of 2015,…
Fallout from the corruption scandal in Colombia surrounding Odebrecht, Brazil’s largest engineering firm, continues as bribery allegations implicating numerous top politicians mount. As evidence mounted against him, a judge announced that…
Colombia and the ELN, the country’s last standing Marxist rebel group, announced via a joint statement Wednesday that they will begin official peace talks on February 7. In addition, former Congressman Odin Sanchez…
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos proposed that all political campaigns be state-funded at the installation ceremony for a newly created electoral review body on Tuesday. Santos’ announcement is an attempt to…
Colombia’s Defense Minister is expecting “big changes” economically and “drastic change in the rules of the game” with the incoming Trump administration in the United States, but not right away, he…
The arrest of former senator Otto Bula on Saturday was the latest in a domino effect of falling political figures in Colombia as the bribery scandal surrounding Latin America’s largest engineering…
The World Bank projected economic growth at 2.5% for Colombia in 2017 in its semi-annual Global Economic Prospects report released last week. The projection is over double the 1.2% growth…
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos named the country’s former police chief the country’s next Vice President after confirming after accepting the renunciation of the current VP. Naranjo, who served as…