Military intelligence reports provided to Colombia’s Supreme Court by ex-President Alvaro Uribe allege that the senator who oversaw the debate on Uribe’s ties to paramilitaries himself received checks from drug…
A political reform proposed by Colombia’s government to balance power in government and avoid the abuse of power of officials got stuck on Monday after 13 of 19 Senators who are…
Colombia’s Congress on Wednesday approved the 2015 government budget which will come into effect January 1, 2015 and has been set at $108 billion.
In a tumultuous week of consecutive clashes with the city council, Bogota’s mayor has failed to pass a single one of his proposed 2015 budget projects ratified.
A congresswoman, a member of ex-President Alvaro Uribe’s Democratic Center, is the first lawmaker to be suspended since the party’s first day in Congress in early August.
A Colombian attorney has demanded the removal of a senator and a house representative arguing that they are ineligible for holding positions in office while also in a relationship, reported newspaper El Espectador Tuesday.
Only two of six of the FARC’s top commanders currently in Cuba to negotiate an end Colombia’s 50-year-long war between rebels and state are allowed to take part in politics in…
More than a week after having changing term, Colombia’s congress is still waiting on former House Representatives to return 16 cars, 19 cell phones and one semi-automatic machine gun, reported…
Of the 166 total house representatives and 102 senators (268 Congressmen in total), 32 did not finish their terms in Congress. Although three members of Congress passed away from natural…