Some 200,700 members of Colombia’s security forces will be assigned to protect proceedings from possible attacks by guerilla groups such as the FARC, in the Andean nation’s upcoming presidential elections.,…
The Colombian counter-terrorism unit is working with the police’s computer crimes unit to find those reponsible for the Facebook group that issued death threats to presidential candidate Antanas Mockus. The…
Colombian political website La Silla Vacia says that Antanas Mockus, the Green Party candidate riding high in the polls, has policies which are seriously underdeveloped compared to those of the…
Colombian Defense Minister Gabriel Silva said Monday that the FARC have plans to impersonate security forces in order to carry out attacks during the first round of presidential elections on…
Support for presidential candidate Juan Manuel Santos plummeted in a second voter poll released Friday, while the popularity of his main adversary Antanas Mockus remains constant. In the second Friday…
The vice-presidential candidates in Colombia’s upcoming May 30 elections faced each other in a nationally televised debate Thursday on the RCN channel to explain their campaign positions. The pending free…
International human rights group Amnesty International (AI) wrote an open letter to the Colombian presidential candidates on Wednesday, asking them to make human rights a top priority in their campaigns,…
Colombian presidential candidate Juan Manuel Santos said Wednesday that he would never fire at Venezuela or Ecuador and asked those countries’ head of State not to interfere in the Colombian…
Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño said Tuesday that his nation will not engage in any more dialogue to normalize relations with Colombia until after the latter’s upcoming May presidential elections. Patiño…