With both the president and his opposition rival in the last elections implicated, the fallout from the Odebrecht corruption scandal in Colombia could cause an unexpected purge in Colombia’s corruption-ridden political…
Colombia’s opposition candidate for the 2018 presidential election “postponed” his announced candidacy on Wednesday after being implicated in a major bribery scandal. Oscar Ivan Zuluaga, the candidate for the Democratic Center party, has been…
The main problem facing Colombian citizens today is not security or economic stability but in fact corruption, according to the results of a bimonthly poll released on Wednesday. 30% of…
Colombia’s government has begun termination of an $861 million contract to restore navigability of the Magdalena River that was led by Brazil’sOdebrecht, the government said on Wednesday. The decision was…
‘Former Colombia President Alvaro Uribe has distanced himself from his long-time political prodigy and former presidential candidate amid accusations he accepted bribes from Brazilian firm Odebrecht. Zuluaga, the 2014 presidential…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Wednesday called for a thorough investigation of allegations his 2014 re-election campaign may have received $1 million from a Brazilian firm embroiled in a…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos’s 2014 election campaign allegedly received as much as $1 million from Brazil’s Odebrecht SA, the country’s attorney general said on Tuesday, as fallout from a…
Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui bank has pulled $250 million in financing from Colombia’s Magdalena River navigability project, as majority stakeholder Odebrecht faces corruption charges, the Colombian government said on Tuesday. Odebrecht…
Fallout from the corruption scandal in Colombia surrounding Odebrecht, Brazil’s largest engineering firm, continues as bribery allegations implicating numerous top politicians mount. As evidence mounted against him, a judge announced that…
