A Colombian congressman resigned from the congressional investigative commission after pulling out of the investigation of ex-President Alvaro Uribe regarding his participation in a wiretapping scandal. Representative Camilo Abril announced…
Colombia’s Supreme Court called on legislators Tuesday to pass gay marriage legislation within two years. The court ruled that homosexual partners currently lack certain rights afforded to heterosexual partners and…
The Colombian Cambio Radical Party announced Tuesday that it has refused to endorse 163 candidates for the upcoming elections, mostly due to the applicants’ previous criminal convictions. Cambio Radical leader…
Former Agriculture Minister Andres Felipe Arias was told Tuesday he would be incarcerated for the length of his trial, as a Colombian judge found him “preliminarily guilty” of embezzling millions…
Colombian actress Sofia Vergara, star of ABC’s Modern Family, said Monday that an Oscar is currently out of reach. “The Oscar is impossible for me,” said Vergara. “To reach that…
Colombian paramilitary leader Salvatore Mancuso, who has admitted to ordering his forces to commit four different massacres, was charged Tuesday for the murder of six people in 1997. A prosecutor…
Spanish police dismantle a money laundering ring Tuesday run by the girlfriend of a Colombian drug lord. The police arrested nine suspects, four of which were Colombian, four Spanish, and…
Colombia’s Interior Ministry filed new drug legislation Tuesday that addresses synthetic drugs such as ecstasy. Interior Minister German Vargas Lleras announced that the new legislation would address the production, trafficking,…
Oil company Petrominerales announced Monday that it is preparing to make 103.7 million shares available on the Colombian stock exchange this August. The Canadian company said that it will drill…