Uribe and Court to talk about new Prosecutor General
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe will visit the country’s Supreme Court Monday to break the deadlock over the election of a new Prosecutor General. Uribe had given the court a shortlist…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe will visit the country’s Supreme Court Monday to break the deadlock over the election of a new Prosecutor General. Uribe had given the court a shortlist…
Investigators found more than a billion pesos (US$500,000) in cash in the home of Senator Alirio Villamizar Afanador, vice-President of the Conservative Party, Caracol Radio reported Thursday. The senator is…
The Colombian government is pressuring Congressmen to vote in favor of the referendum needed for the re-election of President Alvaro Uribe, German Vargas Lleras, leader of coalition party Cambio Radical…
Colombia’s Senate on Wednesday passed a bill calling for a referendum to ask voters if they want to change the constitution to allow President Alvaro Uribe to run for a…
Colombia’s President Alvaro Uribe will not meet opposition Senator Piedad Cordoba to discuss the pending liberation of FARC hostages, commissioner for peace Frank Pearl said Wednesday. Although Uribe authorized Cordoba…
Former Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos returned to Colombia Wednesday to help the 2010 re-election of President Alvaro Uribe be approved by Congress. After his renunciation in May, Santos went…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Tuesday reiterated that in his opinion his re-election in “inconvenient,” but stressed the importance of the continuation of his ‘Democratic Security’ policy. “I have repeated before…
Investigators of Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office raided the houses of two Congressmen who allegedly were bribed by the government to approve the 2006 re-election of President Alvaro Uribe. According to…
Supporters of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe in Congress say they have the necessary amount of votes to pull a referendum needed for a re-election of Uribe through Congress. The vote…