Colombia’s abstention rate has skyrocketed during the 2014 presidential elections with 60% of the voting age population not casting their vote compared to 51% in 2010, according to electoral authorities.
The security situation in Colombia is one of the most important topics especially with the ongoing armed conflict with leftist rebel groups and neo-paramilitary groups, and ongoing crime in the…
Colombia’s economy and employment are topics of vital importance to Colombian voters heading into Sunday’s presidential contest.
Ongoing crises in Colombia’s health care system has been a central topic for many Colombian voters. Candidates vying for the presidency on Sunday agree that the current system must change…
Colombia’s troubled education system has become the primary issue for many of the candidates in a presidential campaign that has, in the past few weeks, largely degenerated into back-and-forth mudslinging.…
The former campaign manager who allegedly financed President Juan Manuel Santos’s 2010 election with drug money said he would like to see the evidence against him “if there is any”,…
Embezzlement is a significantly bigger problem within Colombia’s tax agency (DIAN) than was previously expected, according to the agency’s director. Since 2004, government money lost to fraud embezzlement has amounted…
The United States on Sunday welcomed a recent accord on drug trafficking in ongoing peace negotiations between the Colombian government and FARC rebel group, the country’s largest.
Recent bombings that targeted Colombian unions resulted in US congressmen sending a letter to Colombia president Juan Manuel Santos urging him to protect workers’ rights.