Colombia’s former Defense Minister and current presidential candidate Rafael Pardo claims the government is using more than US$110 million from public security funds to buy votes for the referendum needed…
The Colombian government is pressuring Congressmen to vote in favor of the referendum needed for the re-election of President Alvaro Uribe, German Vargas Lleras, leader of coalition party Cambio Radical…
Colombia’s Senate on Wednesday passed a bill calling for a referendum to ask voters if they want to change the constitution to allow President Alvaro Uribe to run for a…
Former Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos returned to Colombia Wednesday to help the 2010 re-election of President Alvaro Uribe be approved by Congress. After his renunciation in May, Santos went…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Tuesday reiterated that in his opinion his re-election in “inconvenient,” but stressed the importance of the continuation of his ‘Democratic Security’ policy. “I have repeated before…
Supporters of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe in Congress say they have the necessary amount of votes to pull a referendum needed for a re-election of Uribe through Congress. The vote…
A Senator denounced three Supreme Court judges for violating constitutional guarantees by investigating 86 House Representatives for their allegedly illegal approval of a referendum seeking the re-election of President Alvaro…
Partido de la U leader Luis Carlos Restrepo on Tuesday denied that Colombian President Alvaro Uribe had confirmed his aspirations for the 2010 presidency to members of the coalition. Earlier…
Colombian president Alvaro Uribe aspires a third term, he explicitly told members of the coalition on Tuesday. According to Senator Marco Alirio Cortes, who was present at the meeting that…