Weeks after demobilized FARC guerrillas suspended their election campaign citing security concerns, police clashed with unarmed protesters near a rally of hard-right former President Alvaro Uribe. Local police said that…
The presidential candidate for the party of demobilized FARC guerrillas will undergo heart surgery after suffering chest pains on Thursday, a FARC leader confirmed on Friday. Rodrigo Londoño, a.k.a. “Timochenko,”…
In line with Colombia’s far-right’s rhetoric, Pablo Escobar’s former assassin “Popeye” insinuated on Thursday that presidential candidate Gustavo Petro might have to be killed. In several tweets, the controversial opinion…
The presidential candidate of demobilized FARC guerrillas this week made an emergency call to save Colombia’s peace process. Is the situation really that bad or has the former guerrilla chief…
An apparent political polarization in Colombia has cost centrist candidate Sergio Fajardo his lead in the presidential election race, according to the latest poll. According to Cifras y Conceptos, the…
Ahead of Colombia’s presidential elections, leftist candidate Gustavo Petro has more fans and followers on social media than his three main rivals combined.
None of Colombia’s leading presidential candidates come even close to being a decent leader. The country’s choice in May is between terrible administrators and terrorism apologists. Previous elections always left…
While some of Colombia’s election candidates warn for a tropical Armageddon if they are not elected, others take themselves less seriously.
Social democrat Gustavo Petro is consolidating his lead in the polls leading up to Colombia’s presidential election in May, according to a poll by the National Consulting Center (CNC). The…