Mayor Enrique Peñalosa asked Bogota’s city council for permission to sell the government’s stock in telecommunication company ETB, just weeks after the privatization of an energy company caused major protests.
Fighting between left-wing ELN guerrillas and Colombia’s military on Thursday left two guerrillas dead and six injured, according to the military.
Venezuela’s Vice-President has accused Colombia of working with the United States in an alleged international effort to ignite a war against the country.
Medellin youth are fed up with ongoing gang violence and have urged Mayor Federico Gutierrez to execute the violence prevention and reduction programs he had promised while on election campaign.
Colombia’s government and congress have reached an agreement to change the country’s political system to facilitate FARC rebels’ entry into congress and strengthen opposition in congress.
Over 13,000 Colombia businessmen, ranchers and other civilians who allegedly financed or helped paramilitary groups now face an elite prosecution task force, led by the Prosecutor General himself.
Colombia wants to call in the help of foreign governments and companies to partially privatize a number of prisons to solve an ongoing crisis in the country’s prison system.