Colombia’s election day to cost $50M
Colombia’s first round of presidential elections scheduled for Sunday are expected to cost the state $50.6 million (COP100 billion), according to the National Registry. The Registry said that the Treasury…
Colombia’s first round of presidential elections scheduled for Sunday are expected to cost the state $50.6 million (COP100 billion), according to the National Registry. The Registry said that the Treasury…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Monday accepted the resignation of Colombian armed forces commander Freddy Padilla de Leon, as well as that of the director of the nation’s Financial Information and…
“Don’t change the hen that cares for the three eggs of security, confidence in investment and social policy, because the change might damage them,” Colombian President Alvaro Uribe commented in…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe ordered that his country close all its borders from 4 AM to 4 PM on the day of the nation’s presidential elections scheduled for Sunday May 30.…
Controversial Venezuelan spin-doctor J.J. Rendon claims that he donated an election advertisement, previously used by both Honduran President Porfirio Lobo and Mexican governor Jesus Alberto Aguilar, to Colombian Partido de la…
Colombian new source El Tiempo asked the presidential candidates whether they think victims of state violence should receive the same reparations as victims of illegal armed groups. “The rights of victims…
An apparently accidental grenade explosion Sunday at Tolemaida military base, south-west of Bogota, left 24 soldiers injured, some of whom remain in a serious condition, said Colombian armed forces commander Freddy…
A group of unknown assailants stabbed Marco Romero, the director of CODHES, a Colombian NGO that campaigns for human rights and against forced displacement, while he was walking through central Bogota…
This year’s rainy season has left 18 Colombians dead, five missing, and 87 injured, while almost 73,000 have been affected by the extreme weather conditions since the beginning of April,…