Colombia to seek major justice overhaul through popular vote
Colombia’s government is set to call a referendum in March of next year to approve a raft of measures that will tackle corruption by overhauling the current justice system, local…
Colombia’s government is set to call a referendum in March of next year to approve a raft of measures that will tackle corruption by overhauling the current justice system, local…
Election candidate Claudia Lopez impressed on Sunday as Colombia’s election authority agreed to a referendum that seeks a compulsory vote in Congress on far-reaching anti-corruption measures. Of the more than…
When paramilitary umbrella organization AUC demobilized between 2003 and 2006, their demobilization benefited numerous unaffiliated drug traffickers. Demobilized former FARC guerrillas are now helping to prevent a repetition in their…
One of Colombia’s Supreme Court justices facing corruption allegations has denied requests by his colleagues to step down while a criminal investigation is pending. Justice Gustavo Malo had been asked…
Colombia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday asked one of its justices to step down after he and his daughter found themselves accused of extortion. Supreme Court Justice Gustavo Malo is the…
The scandal that erupted after the arrest of Colombia’s top anti-corruption prosecutor is one of epic proportions not seen since 2006, when dozens of congressmen were jailed. The scandal began…
Colombia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Prosecutor General’s Office to formally open corruption investigations into two former justices accused of having taken bribes from politicians. The court did so…
A Senator of President Juan Manuel Santos’ U Party on Tuesday testified how he paid the Supreme Court to obstruct an investigation into his alleged ties to paramilitary death squads.…
42 officials from Colombia’s National Penitentiary and Prison Institute (INPEC) have been arrested for corruption, revealed the director of the institution to El Tiempo on Sunday. The officials in question were…