Four hundred and eighty political hopefuls with legal trouble have been excluded from running in the October elections by the Conservative Party, reported the newspaper El Espectador. According to the…
Colombian political parties have banned 1,400 supposedly criminal candidates from the upcoming October elections, various media reported. Since Interior Minister German Vargas Lleras declared July 7 month that the government…
President Juan Manuel Santos’ National Unity coalition will meet to discuss how it will address gay marriage, El Espectador reported Wednesday. The meeting is a response to yesterday’s declaration by…
An extradited leader of the defunct Norte del Valle cartel Hernando Gomez, alias “Rasguño,” has declared that the police worked with the cartel to kill Conservative Party Senator Alvaro Gomez…
According to El Tiempo, ex-president Uribe is experiencing difficulty in allying his party with Antioquian Conservatives against rivals in the upcoming election for the governor of Antioquia and the mayor…
Paulo Laserna, the former Caracol Television CEO, has turned down the Conservative Party’s invitation to be their candidate for Bogota mayor in the October elections. Laserna notified party president, Senator…
The Colombian House of Representatives opened a preliminary investigation into a former prosecutor general for allegedly financing his election with funds from narco-trafficking, Caracol Radio reported Friday. A three person…
A Colombian army commander has reported that Conservative Party Senator Liliana Rendon has become a target of FARC members operating in the city of Medellin, Antioquia department, local media reported…
The Senate passed a bill Tuesday that will see the granting of extraordinary powers to the government for six months to divide and restructure ministries and state agencies, El Tiempo…