The Colombia branch of a Spanish public utilities company paid $41,000 to President Juan Manuel Santos’ 2010 campaign from the company’s slush fund, Spanish newspaper El Mundo reported. According to…
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With the sentence “we put more than $1 million in the campaigns of [President Juan Manuel] Santos and [opposition candidate Oscar Ivan] Zuluaga,” the former Colombia director of engineering firm Odebrecht said…
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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…
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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Wednesday called for a thorough investigation of allegations his 2014 re-election campaign may have received $1 million from a Brazilian firm embroiled in a…
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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos’s 2014 election campaign allegedly received as much as $1 million from Brazil’s Odebrecht SA, the country’s attorney general said on Tuesday, as fallout from a…
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While Colombia’s chief prosecution chief filed charges against the opposition campaign manager, human right advocates and victims sued former President Alvaro Uribe after he successfully helped sink a peace process…
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Peace processOpposition campaign manager investigated for alleged electoral fraud in Colombia peace referendum
Colombia’s chief prosecutor said Friday he will investigate the conservative opposition Democratic Center party on electoral fraud charges after the party successfully sank an ongoing peace process with FARC rebels that…
‘Former Colombia President Alvaro Uribe has distanced himself from his long-time political prodigy and former presidential candidate amid accusations he accepted bribes from Brazilian firm Odebrecht. Zuluaga, the 2014 presidential…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General is investigating mounting evidence of alleged government infiltration of the country’s opposition campaign during the 2014 presidential elections. The Democratic Center’s Oscar Ivan Zuluaga, who barely lost to President…
Electoral observers are warning that more than one in five of Colombia’s municipalities are at risk of electoral fraud during a pending plebiscite on ongoing peace talks with the FARC. The Electoral Observation…