Mockus seeks abstainee vote
Green Party candidate Antanas Mockus called for abstainers to exercise their democratic right and vote in Colombia’s second round presidential elections. “Mr. Abstainer, you have in your hands the power to…
Green Party candidate Antanas Mockus called for abstainers to exercise their democratic right and vote in Colombia’s second round presidential elections. “Mr. Abstainer, you have in your hands the power to…
Colombian presidential candidate Antanas Mockus said Tuesday that he “leaves the doors open to all parties” to make a second round presidential election alliance with the Green Party. “We want…
Unsuccessful Liberal Party presidential candidate Rafael Pardo told Caracol Radio that his party is not seeking a “bureaucratic” alliance with Juan Manuel Santos because it is unclear what the “Uribista’s” proposal of…
Colombian dairy producers are celebrating World Milk Day by handing out 100,000 litres of free milk to underprivileged neighborhoods in the cities of Medellin and Bogota. The donations coincide with a…
An angry mob in southern Colombia embarked on a witch-hunt, attempting to lynch a suspected sorceress and burning her house to the ground. The attack occurred in Puerto Tejada, in…
The Organization of American States” (OAS) electoral mission says its observers did not encounter evidence of vote buying in Colombia’s Sunday presidential elections, but notes that the voting system has…
Venezuela’s Justice Minister Tarek El Aissami said Monday that he hopes that his nation and Colombia’s next government will “respect each other like brothers” and that the new president will abandon…
Colombia’s Constitutional Court upheld a Supreme ruling that former Senator Juan Manuel Lopez Cabrales be sentenced to six years in jail for his paramilitary ties. The Constitutional Court’s ruling followed…
Ruben Dario Granda, the brother of fugitive FARC “foreign minister” Rodrigo Granda, sought asylum along with his wife and son at Nicaragua’s Embassy in Bogota on Monday. Ruben Dario Granda and his…