A referendum seeking the impeachment of Bogota Mayor Gustavo Petro continues to be on hold amid uncertainty over other efforts to remove the mayor from office, Colombia’s Registrar’s Office said.
Inspector General Alejandro Ordoñez has submitted a request to Colombia’s State Council demanding that the high court stops reviewing an appeal challenging his dismissal and political ban of Bogota’s mayor.
Just days after Colombia’s president Juan Manuel Santos reinstated Bogota’s mayor, Gustavo Petro, Santos has said he will challenge the same reinstatement, national media reported.
Presidential candidate Oscar Ivan Zuluaga of the Democratic Center party said Wednesday that ongoing crises surrounding Bogota Mayor Gustavo Petro has prompted him to address a pending justice reform as early…
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on Wednesday celebrated a Colombia court’s mandate to return formerly ousted Mayor Gustavo Petro to his public role, in agreement with arguments made…
Hundreds of thousands of Bogota residents are still without potable water on Thursday morning after damage to the Colombian capital’s water network, national media has reported.
Clara Lopez, presidential candidate for the leftist Democratic Pole (Polo Democratico – PD) party, believes that with Santos’ reinstatement of Bogota’s former mayor, Gustavo Petro, “democracy has been strengthened” in…
Gustavo Petro, the current mayor of Bogota, has taken to Twitter in the last 24 hours to acknowledge his reinstatement.
Colombia’s electoral authority will resume an impeachment referendum process against the mayor of Bogota after president Juan Manuel Santos was forced by a court to reinstate Gustavo Petro, reported Caracol…