Colombian election candidate admits to being a clown
After 45 years in the clown profession, “Picarin” has chosen to keep his stage-name while running for the local council in the northeast Colombian city of Bucaramanga.
After 45 years in the clown profession, “Picarin” has chosen to keep his stage-name while running for the local council in the northeast Colombian city of Bucaramanga.
Pressure on former President Alvaro Uribe increased to unprecedented levels after the prosecution asked the Supreme Court to open a criminal investigation into the former head of state’s alleged complicity in a 1997…
A former senator convicted of ties to paramilitary death squads over the weekend asked that “parapoliticians” be included in a pending peace deal between the government and FARC rebels, but heard…
Colombia and Panama have given each other another 60 days to come to agreement on how to combat Colombian tax evasion through Panamanian banks.
Colombia is “key in the hemisphere” as a nation set to contribute more to global challenges as an indispensable ally for the United Stets, according to US Vice President Joe Biden.
Colombia has succeeded in achieving UN Millennium Development Goals of poverty reduction in advance of its target, halving levels of poverty it little more than a decade.
Colombia will contribute 5,000 to the UN military peacekeeping force in a gradual deployment over the next three years, President Juan Manuel Santos announced Monday.
The existence of neo-paramilitary groups are the direct consequence of the Colombian government’s failure to comply with a peace deal made with paramilitary organization AUC, imprisoned “Urabeños” founder “Don Mario” claimed.
Bogota mayoral candidate Clara Lopez has denied knowledge of a $500M embezzlement scandal that took place while she was the chief of staff of the Colombian capital’s former mayor, the now jailed…