The U.S. Ambassador to Colombia, William Brownfield, criticized the intervention by foreign governments in Colombia’s upcoming presidential elections, reports El Tiempo on Wednesday. Brownfield, when asked about foreign interference in…
Presidential candidate Juan Manuel Santos stressed in an interview Wednesday that he is “not Uribe,” and that if Colombians are “tired of a certain governing style, they can relax.” Despite…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on Wednesday sharply criticized campaign proposals to raise tax, warning that this could “severely damage” what has been achieved, reports El Espectador. Though the president did…
Green Party presidential candidate Antanas Mockus rejected on Tuesday the support for his campaign by disgraced ex-Senator Rocio Arias, one of Colombia’s most infamous “parapoliticians,” who was convicted of ties…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on Monday stressed the importance of maintaining a strong security policy, following Sunday’s FARC attack in the Amazon jungle that left nine Colombian soldiers dead. “This…
Security for Polo Democratico presidential candidate Gustavo Petro has been beefed up following revelations that the FARC plan to assassinate the leftist politician, reports CM& on Sunday. Speaking to the…
Partido de la U presidential candidate Juan Manuel Santos and Green Party candidate Antanas Mockus are neck-and-neck in the most recent voter poll, released Friday morning by Datexco. According to the…
A debate among presidential candidates on forced displacement in Colombia was canceled by its organizers on Tuesday due to a “lack of interest” from the candidates, reports Colombian NGO CODHES. The…
Colombia’s national registrar announced that 40,000 people selected to be supervisors at polling stations in the upcoming presidential elections have been disqualified due to risk of fraud, El Espectador reported…