Colombia’s finance minister Alberto Carrasquilla has been in office for little more than a month and is already facing a possible removal from office. Colombia’s congress ordered the minister to…
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque has failed to consolidate a stable majority coalition in Congress, leaving it unclear how he will be able to execute his hard-line policy proposals. Duque did…
Colombia’s ruling party said it wants the controversial husband of a far-right senator to lead the country’s fiscal watchdog, but can’t seem to find support. The possibility that the current…
Colombia’s opposition on Tuesday saved the FARC from being kicked out of Congress after the government tried to amend the bill that guarantees the former rebels’ participation in politics as…
In another historic day in Colombia’s long and complex history, Wednesday’s session in Congress witnessed the first meeting between former President Alvaro Uribe and the FARC. For the first time…
The inauguration of President Ivan Duque was going to be elegant and worthy of a conservative head of state trying to rise above a divided people. Until Congress President Ernesto…
Ivan Duque has not even taken office and his government is already in crisis after the president-elect’s political patron, former President Alvaro Uribe, resigned from Congress. Uribe resigned from the Senate…
Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe said Tuesday that he will resign from the Senate over an ongoing criminal investigation that includes murder charges. According to Uribe, he was called in…
Colombia’s Congress has begun a new legislative term, and was almost immediately treated to the shiny white buttocks of anti-corruption Senator Antanas Mockus. The first day of the legislative term…