An arraignment judge jailed two former directors of Colombia’s disaster management agency UNGRD as they await their corruption trials. Former UNGRD director Olmedo Lopez and his former deputy, Sneyder Pinilla,…
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said Sunday that “enemies” of his leftist government are planning a coup d’état. In a post on social media platform X, Petro said that it would…
Colombia may have lost more than $4.1 billion in royalty payments since 2017 because of irregularities in the outsourcing of development projects, the director of the National Planning Department (DNP)…
Colombia’s trade minister signed off on a decree to ban coal exports to Israel over its alleged genocide of the Palestinian inhabitants of Gaza. President Gustavo Petro announced the ban…
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro ramped up security at the country’s top courts after police found explosives and a model of the palace of justice at a raid in Bogota. According…
The governments of Colombia, Brazil and Mexico insist that Venezuela’s election authority ought to publish detailed results of the recent presidential vote. In a joint statement, the foreign ministers of…
Colombia’s Comptroller General’s Office (CGO) is investigating 24 private healthcare intermediaries for misallocating $2.9 billion that was meant for COVID19 treatments during the 2020 pandemic. According to the CGO, the…
President Gustavo Petro said Friday that his government’s response to the latest crisis in Venezuela seeks to avoid a “humanitarian catastrophe” that would impact Colombia. Petro responded to criticism on…
A judge in Colombia’s capital Bogota sentenced a businessman to four years in prison for embezzling more than $17 million (COP70 billion) meant to provide internet to children in rural…