Colombia’s 10 most corrupt political parties
Almost 7% of the politicians elected in Colombia’s 2015 local and regional elections have...
Tag: 2015 elections
350 of Colombia’s new mayors and 7 governors suspect in pending criminal cases
Some 350 mayors and seven governors who took office on January 1 are facing criminal...
The threat of political violence awaiting Colombia’s newly elected politicians
Colombia’s newly elected governors, mayors and local lawmakers took office on January...
Santos coalition in a bit of a crisis over VP’s electoral politicking
Colombia’s governing coalition in Congress is in crisis after two of the parties accused...
Politicians exploited children to secure fraud in Colombia’s local elections
Candidates in northeast Colombia have gone to extreme levels to gain votes by exploiting...
How the left lost Colombia’s capital Bogota
Leftist parties have long been a marginal force in Colombia’s politics, except in the...
How Colombia’s local elections strengthened VP’s expected 2018 presidential bid
Colombian Vice President German Vargas circles in on the 2018 presidency after impressively...
Santos has first meeting with Bogota’s new mayor-elect
President Juan Manuel Santos on Monday met with the newly elected mayor of Bogota, Enrique...
‘Disgruntled voters’ burn down city hall in central Colombia town
An angry crowd burned down the city hall, a court building and the local registry office of a town...
Local election results show ‘Colombia wants peace’: Santos
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Sunday hailed the outcome of Sunday’s local...
Central Colombia town elects jailed mayor
The central Colombian town of Yopal elected a new mayor who has been running the last month of his...
Bogota elects Enrique Peñalosa mayor, dumps left after 12 years
Colombia’s capital Bogota elected Enrique Peñalosa, a centrist former mayor, to lead...
