Links between Colombia’s politics and crime far from being a thing of the past
Colombia’s political parties continue to support alleged and even convicted criminal politicians, according to a conflict-monitoring NGO.
Colombia’s political parties continue to support alleged and even convicted criminal politicians, according to a conflict-monitoring NGO.
Thirty-five alleged members of “Los Urabeños”, Colombia’s most powerful neo-paramilitary drug trafficking organization, were arrested on Thursday. Among the detainees were two local politicians.
A state deputy from northwest Colombia who was arrested in December over corruption charges, surprised her colleagues by attending sessions this week in spite her house arrest.
Colombia’s Supreme court will investigate the Liberal Party senate leader Horacio Serpa in connection to the 1995 murder of a prominent Conservative rival politician.
Sunday’s congressional elections in Colombia resulted in a number of pleasant surprises for some of the participating political forces. They ended up gaining political power for the 2014-2018 term that…
One of Colombia’s high courts has ruled that former director of the DAS, Miguel Maza, wrongfully imprisoned innocent men during the course of the investigation into the 1989 assassination of…
Colombia’s Liberal Party (Partido Liberal Colombiano) is the first political entity to promote Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos’s reelection campaign, outside of the president’s own U Party (Partido de la…
The founder of the Tomato Party has agreed to join the Liberal Party in upcoming parliamentary elections, El Espectador reported Monday.
Twenty-four years after the killing of presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan, prosecutors’ crosshairs are now on the former director of Colombia’s now-defunct intelligence agency for his possible involvement in the…