Bogota mayor to press charges against union leader over protests
The mayor of Colombia’s capital Bogota, Carlos Fernando Galan, announced criminal charges...
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Claudia Lopez loses lead in Bogota mayoral race: poll
Candidates from the left and right are trailing Bogota’s two centrist candidates, Claudia...
Colombia’s quarreling elites: Uribe and the Galan family
Colombia’s congress was supposed to debate the country’s development plan last week,...
Colombia coalition party president resigns over endorsement of shady candidate
The president of coalition party Radical Change resigned on Thursday amid controversy over his...
More hats in the ring for 2014 presidency
All eyes are on four Colombian politicians who are aiming to keep the 2014 presidency out of the hands of anyone associated with the divisive former president Alvaro Uribe. German Vargas Lleras, the current minister of housing,...
There’s never been so much corruption: Colombia’s Inspector General
In honor of the UN’s International Anti-Corruption Day, Congress addressed the topic at an anti-corruption forum where Colombia’s Inspector General on Thursday spoke of the pervasive corruption that exists in...
Petro tops latest Bogota mayor election poll
Socialist candidate Gustavo Petro remained in the lead in the most recent poll for Bogota mayor, an office up for election on Sunday. According to the poll, conducted by the National Consulting Center (CNC) for CM&...
Cambio Radical revokes endorsement of 161 candidates
The new Cambio Radical Director, Carlos Fernando Galan, radically started his career with the party on Wednesday by withdrawing the endorsement of 161 Cambio Radical candidates because of their criminal records, reported El...
Cambio Radical replaces director amid candidate corruption scandal
Bogota mayoral candidate Carlos Fernando Galan replaced German Varon Wednesday as the director of the Cambio Radical Party amid allegations that Varon allowed candidates with criminal records to receive party endorsements. Varon...
Peñalosa in statistical tie with Petro in Bogota mayoral election
Former Mayor Enrique Peñalosa was statistically tied with independent candidate Gustavo Petro in the latest poll for the Bogota mayoral race, various media reported Friday. Although Peñalosa leads Petro by 2.5 points in the most...
Bogota mayoral candidates agree capital needs metro
All Bogota mayoral candidates agree the capital needs to keep working towards the installation of a metro to fight the congestion of the capital’s traffic, they said in a radio debate Sunday. Candidates Carlos Fernando...
