President Juan Manuel Santos on Sunday inaugurated Colombia’s new Congress. The president called on the legislators, elected in what observers called the most fraudulent elections in recent history, to support ongoing…
Former President Alvaro Uribe was inaugurated into Colombia’s Senate on Sunday, but before the outspoken hardliner can assume his position atop the largest opposition bloc in Congress, he will first have…
Former President Alvaro Uribe was recently elected to Colombia’s Senate. However, according to Caracol Radio, no office in Congress is safe enough to comply with the politician’s rigid security measures.
Colombia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the investigation of a key ally of President Juan Manuel Santos in the Senate over the lawmaker’s alleged role in the embezzlement of seized…
Sunday’s congressional elections left Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos’ legislative coalition of National Unity in a more precarious position as his supporting parties managed to retain a majority in both the Senate…
Authorities in northern Colombia on Thursday arrested a congressman on suspicion of having ties to now-defunct paramilitary group AUC. The detained politician is one of more than 140 sitting and…
Colombia’s ex-president Alvaro Uribe petitioned for a congressional criminal investigation of President Juan Manuel Santos Friday, accusing the president of granting government jobs to congress members aligned with his political…
Members of congress representing countries across the world, converged on Bogota for the 35 Annual Parliamentary Forum, showing support for ongoing peace talks between Colombia’s government and FARC rebels.
Colombia’s Supreme Court said it has convicted 45 congressmen and 7 governors for connections to paramilitary organizations since investigations into an ongoing “parapolitics” scandal broke in 2006.