Colombia’s Senate agrees to begin decentralizing government
Colombia’s Senate voted to dramatically increase the budgets of regional authorities ahead of a debate to decentralize government. The bill, which has yet to be approved by the House of…
Colombia’s Senate voted to dramatically increase the budgets of regional authorities ahead of a debate to decentralize government. The bill, which has yet to be approved by the House of…
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro accused the director of controversial Israeli military contractor NSO Group of illegally flying at least $5.5 million out of Colombia in a clandestine arms deal. According…
Colombia’s potential cocaine exports soared to a record 1,925 metric tons in 2023, despite increasingly successful efforts to intercept drug shipments, according to numbers released by the United Nations and…
President Gustavo Petro announced that his government plans to buy coca from farmers while they are integrated into Colombia’s legal economy. The announcement immediately spurred controversy, because of international legislation…
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro, indigenous authorities and artists inaugurated a United Nations biodiversity summit in the city of Cali. The so-called Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the UN Convention…
Seventeen people were injured in a drone attack that followed a military operation that uprooted guerrilla groups from a town in southwest Colombia. The drone attack on El Plateado was…
One of Colombia’s best online publications, Voragine, said Thursday that it will suspend reporting on paramilitary groups and drug trafficking because of “situations that compromise our security.” The decision implies…
Colombia’s government agreed to a meeting with ELN guerrillas to seek a possible resumption of peace talks that were suspended last month. In a statement, the government’s peace talks delegates…
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro addressed the nation on Tuesday to mobilize his supporters in opposition to a controversial decision by the National Electoral Council to investigate him. In the televised…