Governor hopeful becomes Colombia’s 40th election candidate in jail
A candidate governor for the Conservative Party in south Colombian was arrested Wednesday on charges he worked together with local drug trafficking groups.
A candidate governor for the Conservative Party in south Colombian was arrested Wednesday on charges he worked together with local drug trafficking groups.
Colombia’s coalition parties asked President Juan Manuel Santos on Tuesday to prevent his vice president from using government projects to garner support for his own political party.
Colombia’s Interior Minister on Monday called to step up security in the Caribbean region after a bomb attack on the office of an aspiring governor in the city of Santa…
The two leading mayoral candidates in Bogota might be left off the October 25 ballot after they were alleged to have violated electoral law.
After 45 years in the clown profession, “Picarin” has chosen to keep his stage-name while running for the local council in the northeast Colombian city of Bucaramanga.
A candidate in Colombia’s October 25 elections representing former President Alvaro Uribe’s opposition party was shot in southwest Colombia on Saturday. The aspiring politician survived the attack.
Colombia’s electoral regulating body on Tuesday announced that 974 candidates are ineligible to participate in October 25 local elections due to ongoing judicial proceedings or disciplinary sanctions.
At least 20,000 candidates in Colombia’s October 25 local elections have criminal investigations pending against them, according to the Prosecutor General’s Office, reported Caracol Radio Monday.
Colombia’s electoral authority said Monday it has cancelled hundreds of thousands of voter registrations across the country amid attempts to curb fraud in upcoming local elections.