Colombia’s second wave rainy season to cost $38M
The Colombian government will ask the Ministry of Finance for an additional $38 million (COP70 billion) to deal with a second wave of devastating rains that are predicted to arrive…
The Colombian government will ask the Ministry of Finance for an additional $38 million (COP70 billion) to deal with a second wave of devastating rains that are predicted to arrive…
German Vargas Lleras, Colombia’s incoming minister for justice and the interior, says the FARC guerrilla group must free all hostages as a pre-condition for talks with the government. “If the…
Rodrigo Rivera and German Vargas Lleras each spoke to the media for the first time following their appointments Wednesday as defense and interior minister respectively, in the incoming administration of…
Colombia’s President-elect Juan Manuel Santos announced Wednesday that his defense minister will be former Liberal senator Rodrigo Rivera, while Cambio Radical’s German Vargas Lleras will manage the Andean nation’s portfolio…
Presidential candidate Juan Manuel Santos agreed to make Cambio Radical leader German Vargas Lleras Colombia’s interior minister if Santos wins Sunday’s elections, a Cambio Radical senator says. According to Rodrigo…
There is speculation in Colombian media that political party Cambio Radical are set to confirm an alliance with presidential candidate Juan Manuel Santos. El Espectador reported Tuesday that Cambio Radical leader…
“Uribista” presidential candidate Juan Manuel Santos invites Cambio Radical leader German Vargas Lleras to join his coalition government, if Santos is elected president in Colombia’s June 20 runoff election. “Remember…
Colombian weekly news magazine, Semana, in conjunction with the politics department at Rosario University, asked the presidential candidates what policies they had in store for the estimated four million Colombians living abroad.…
With less than a month to go until Colombia elects its next president, the rumor mill is in overdrive, with some candidates falling prey to smear campaigns and other down-right…