A Colombian congressman is seeking a referendum to revoke the country’s congress and hold immediate elections, Caracol Radio reported Monday. Organizers of the referendum, sponsored by independent Senator Camilo Romero,…
Colombia’s House President carries out his threat Thursday and cut salaries of 105 congressmen who failed to show up at a debate due to be attended by 165. Augusto Posada,…
Colombia’s interior minister confirmed Monday that an electoral reform the government plans to present to Congress still does not permit congressional seats for guerrilla group FARC with whom the government…
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos on Tuesday swore in Luis Eduardo Garzon as Counsel Minister for Social Dialogue. During a ceremony in the Casa Nariño in Bogota, Colombia’s White House,…
The president of Colombia’s House of Representatives on Monday threatened to withhold lawmakers’ salaries if they fail to sufficiently show up in Congress. A day before suspending Tuesday’s plenary session…
A Colombian congressman was arrested on embezzlement charges Wednesday inside the congress building in Bogota. Jorge Mesa, a Conservative Party representative for the Caldas department, was apprehended after Colombia’s Supreme…
Colombia’s inspector general appointed 266 errand boys, coffee ladies and cleaners to occupy Congress after the arrest of the country’s last remaining congressman for ties to paramilitary groups. Inspector General…
Alejandro Ordoñez is one of the most powerful men in Colombian politics. As Inspector General (Procurador General), he is the head of a huge bureaucracy whose aim is, in part,…
Colombian Congress will not undertake extra sessions in order to pass pending legislation prior to the turnover to the new government, as Colombian President Alvaro Uribe requested, Senate President Javier Caceres…