Colombian authorities arrested 15 prosecution officials for working for a drug trafficker tied to both FARC guerrillas and AGC paramilitaries. The two prosecutors, two assistant prosecutors and 11 investigators were…
The 2010 campaign of Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos, already investigated for receiving illegal funds from bribery-stained multinational Odebrecht, also received funds from an investment company that embezzled hundreds of millions of dollars, according…
Colombia’s electoral authority CNE announced on Thursday it had opened a formal investigated into illegal funding of President Juan Manuel Santos’ 2010 election campaign by Brazilian engineering firm Odebrecht. The investigation…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Tuesday acknowledged that his 2010 presidential campaign received “irregular funding” from Brazilian company Odebrecht but moved to dispel suggestions that he was aware it…
With both the president and his opposition rival in the last elections implicated, the fallout from the Odebrecht corruption scandal in Colombia could cause an unexpected purge in Colombia’s corruption-ridden political…
The salary of the news director at Bogota’s public TV network is higher than that of the Colombian president, according to Semana magazine. Renowned journalist Gonzalo Guillen exposed in an op-ed…
The governor of the province with the highest child mortality in Colombia was arrested for embezzling funds meant to curb this child mortality rate. Oneida Pinto, the sacked governor of the northern Guajira province…
When some of Colombia’s most corrupt politicians organize a march against corruption for April 1, you might think that would be a good April Fool’s prank. Colombians don’t celebrate this until December though.…
Colombia’s opposition candidate for the 2018 presidential election “postponed” his announced candidacy on Wednesday after being implicated in a major bribery scandal. Oscar Ivan Zuluaga, the candidate for the Democratic Center party, has been…