Pablo Escobar’s former hitman “Popeye” bankrolled this year’s congressional campaign of the members of the coalition of President-elect Ivan Duque, local media reported Monday. Colombia’s chief prosecutor announced he would…
“In Colombia, elections are stolen,” said the Director of Colombia’s National Registrar’s Office, Carlos Ariel Sanchez Torres, in 2007. Colombia indeed suffers from several problems in its democracy that increase electoral…
On Thursday, electoral observers reported systematic vote-buying in north Colombia, ahead of October local elections. MOE Director Alejandra Barrios announced that 600 so-called “mochileros” operating in Barranquilla are paying between…
The Organization of American States (OAS) electoral observation mission that oversaw Colombia’s Sunday presidential elections called them the least violent “in decades” and noted that they took place “with the…
Presidential candidate Juan Manuel Santos denied on Friday that his campaign team had instructed government-run social program “Familias en Accion” to pressure citizens to vote for him in the Colombia’s…
The Organization of American States” (OAS) electoral mission says its observers did not encounter evidence of vote buying in Colombia’s Sunday presidential elections, but notes that the voting system has…
In its official report, Colombian NGO the Electoral Observation Mission (MOE) recognized a drop in irregularities in Colombia’s first round presidential elections, in comparison with the nation’s March congressional elections.…
Members of the Green Party and the Partido de la U are accusing each other of buying votes in the Colombian coffee-growing department of Risaralda ahead of Sunday’s presidential elections,…
The Organization of American States (OAS) released a damning report Thursday on Colombia’s handling of its March congressional elections, highlighting 15,000 irregularities across eighteen of the country’s departments, reports El…