Colombia’s Comptroller General found that presidential candidate Sergio Fajardo, 16 other former officials and 10 contractors are responsible for the near-collapse of a hydroelectric dam. Fajardo was among 19 former…
Colombia’s Comptroller Generals on Monday ordered to seize an engineering firm whose “visionary” late founder conceived the disastrous Hidroituango hydroelectric dam. The Comptroller General ordered to seize 13 bank accounts…
Charges against presidential hopeful Sergio Fajardo indicate how negligence in Colombia’s politics may be as damaging as corruption. Fajardo, a former mayor of Medellin and a former governor, received global…
Colombia’s comptroller general said Thursday that one presidential candidate and two former governors will personally have to account for the $1 billion lost due to negligence at the country’s largest…
A last-minute decision by Medellin’s mayor to sue allegedly corrupt contractors of public utilities company EPM triggered the resignation of its board of directors. Mayor Daniel Quintero said on Tuesday…
Colombia’s largest hydroelectric dam, HidroItuango, has made international headlines — and for all the wrong reasons. From its inception, the $4.5 billion-dollar dam built near Ituango, Antioquia, on the Cauca…
Colombia’s war crimes tribunal will return to Medellin in October to learn why the city’s energy company EPM flooded an area where prosecutors were looking for hundreds of missing persons.…
Colombia’s largest hydroelectric dam was expected to be begin providing 17% of the country’s electricity in November, but a series of irregularities has cost the treasury more than $1.2 billion…
A Bogota judge ordered Medellin energy company EPM to repair damages caused to both the environment and locals by Colombia’s largest hydroelectric dam and study the viability of the Hidroituango…