Colombia’s prosecution arrested two politicians and a prosecutor of the war crimes tribunal on bribery charges on Friday, claiming they sought to “influence” the extradition case of an important former…
Colombia’s political parties continue to support alleged and even convicted criminal politicians, according to a conflict-monitoring NGO.
Thirty-five alleged members of “Los Urabeños”, Colombia’s most powerful neo-paramilitary drug trafficking organization, were arrested on Thursday. Among the detainees were two local politicians.
Citizens’ Option (OC) is a Colombian political party founded by an imprisoned politician and arguably the most disreputable member of President Ivan Duque’s coalition. The OC is latest iteration of the now-defunct…
After years of refusal and half a year ahead of local elections, Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos has invited a notoriously shady political party to join his coalition.
The Bogota office of Citizens Option, a controversial Colombian political party, was the target of a grenade attack on Tuesday.
A congresswoman, a member of ex-President Alvaro Uribe’s Democratic Center, is the first lawmaker to be suspended since the party’s first day in Congress in early August.