Colombia’s Inspector General, Alejandro Ordoñez, announced Monday he will ask the Supreme Court to nullify the cases against parapoliticans who have resigned from Congress over paramilitary charges. According to Ordoñez,…
Colombia’s Supreme Court sentenced two congressmen and one former governor to jail for different crimes. Former coalition Representative of the House and prominent christian, Ruben Dario Salazar (Convergencia Ciudadana), was…
Carlos Garcia, the former president of coalition party De la U and close ally of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, was called to trial for his alleged links with paramilitary groups.…
The former governor of the northern Colombian Sucre department Friday was sentenced to seven and a half years imprisinment for his ties to paramilitary death squads. The country’s Supreme Court…
Colombian coalition party De la U Wednesday proposed a law that would disallow the country’s Supreme Court to try Congressmen who resigned to avoid prosecution by the country’s highest court.…
The president of Colombia’s House of Representatives, Edgar Gomez, left coalition party Convergencia Ciudadana on Wednesday to join the opposition Liberal Party. The switch is a big setback for the…
Paramilitary warlord Freddy ‘El Aleman’ Rendon Herrera confirmed on Monday that he had given COP100 million (US$50,000) to Ruben Dario Quintero, just before the latter was elected Senator for Cambio…
One day after after the mayor of Barranquilla was warned he’d be sent to jail if he did not comply with a local judge’s ruling, Cali mayor Jorge Ivan Ospina…
Barranquilla Mayor Alex Char and three members of his cabinet will face 10-day imprisonment for failing to obey a judge’s ruling. The arrest warrant was issued by the sixth municipal…