An arraignment judge jailed two former directors of Colombia’s disaster management agency UNGRD as they await their corruption trials. Former UNGRD director Olmedo Lopez and his former deputy, Sneyder Pinilla,…
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said Sunday that “enemies” of his leftist government are planning a coup d’état. In a post on social media platform X, Petro said that it would…
Colombia’s government signed off on the creation of alternatives to compulsory military service. The newly created “social services for peace” allow men between 18 and 24 to evade the military…
Colombia’s banking sector agreed to invest $13.6 billion in sectors that are expected to grow the economy, President Gustavo Petro said Tuesday. The agreement came after a series of meetings…
Authorities in northeast Colombia have reported a wave of explosives attacks since an improvised ceasefire by guerrilla group ELN expired on Friday. According to newspaper El Espectador, guerrillas carried out…
Colombia may have lost more than $4.1 billion in royalty payments since 2017 because of irregularities in the outsourcing of development projects, the director of the National Planning Department (DNP)…
EMC commander “Ivan Mordisco” declared war on dissident guerrilla units that decided to negotiate peace with the government without his approval. In a statement, the EMC’s Amazonas Bloc, which is…
An appeals court in Colombia’s second largest city Medellin sentenced the former finance chief of the now-defunct paramilitary organization ACCU to 40 years in prison. The Medellin Superior Tribunal overturned…
Colombia’s trade minister signed off on a decree to ban coal exports to Israel over its alleged genocide of the Palestinian inhabitants of Gaza. President Gustavo Petro announced the ban…