Guerrero elected Cali mayor in landslide victory
Independent Rodrigo Guerrero easily secured a win for the mayor of Cali, Colombia’s third largest city, in Sunday’s local elections. With 87.41% of the votes counted, the 73-year old Guerrero…
Independent Rodrigo Guerrero easily secured a win for the mayor of Cali, Colombia’s third largest city, in Sunday’s local elections. With 87.41% of the votes counted, the 73-year old Guerrero…
Former guerrilla and socialist candidate Gustavo Petro won the Bogota mayor election and will assume the country’s second most important job on January 1. Petro who after 99.44% of the…
Colombia’s local elections saw a steep drop in violence, the government reported Sunday evening. Violence fell by 86% since the last local elections in 2007, Colombia’s Interior Minister German Vargas…
Teresa Cristina –-the superstar of Brazil’s new generation of samba– will perform in Bogota on November 3. The Brazilian vocalist, best known as Cristina, made a name for herself with…
A demobilized paramilitary convicted for his role in the massacre of 59 people in north Colombia was registered as a victim in the same massacre, allowing his family to claim…
Socialist candidate Gustavo Petro remained in the lead in the most recent poll for Bogota mayor, an office up for election on Sunday. According to the poll, conducted by the…
A Manizales water plant said Thursday that rains are preventing repairs, leaving the central Colombian city without receiving water for the ninth straight day. The Civil Defense director announced that…
After two weeks in hiding, the administrative director of Colombia’s House of Representatives has officially been dismissed following a contracting scandal, Colombian media reported Friday. Ex-Administrative Director Jairo Jaramillo Matiz…
Narco-paramilitary organizations are active in 347 of Colombia’s 1,119 municipalities, reported the non-governmental organization Indepaz Thursday. According to the NGO, the number of Colombian municipalities with a narco-paramilitary presence has…