Senate approves Uribe re-election bill
Colombia’s Senate on Wednesday passed a bill calling for a referendum to ask voters if they want to change the constitution to allow President Alvaro Uribe to run for a…
Colombia’s Senate on Wednesday passed a bill calling for a referendum to ask voters if they want to change the constitution to allow President Alvaro Uribe to run for a…
Colombia’s President Alvaro Uribe will not meet opposition Senator Piedad Cordoba to discuss the pending liberation of FARC hostages, commissioner for peace Frank Pearl said Wednesday. Although Uribe authorized Cordoba…
Former Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos returned to Colombia Wednesday to help the 2010 re-election of President Alvaro Uribe be approved by Congress. After his renunciation in May, Santos went…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Tuesday reiterated that in his opinion his re-election in “inconvenient,” but stressed the importance of the continuation of his ‘Democratic Security’ policy. “I have repeated before…
Investigators of Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office raided the houses of two Congressmen who allegedly were bribed by the government to approve the 2006 re-election of President Alvaro Uribe. According to…
Supporters of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe in Congress say they have the necessary amount of votes to pull a referendum needed for a re-election of Uribe through Congress. The vote…
The Supreme Court judge who was sued by Colombia’s President Alvaro Uribe for slander does not want to reconcile with Uribe, local media reported on Wednesday. Uribe and judge Cesar…
Partido de la U leader Luis Carlos Restrepo on Tuesday denied that Colombian President Alvaro Uribe had confirmed his aspirations for the 2010 presidency to members of the coalition. Earlier…
Colombian president Alvaro Uribe aspires a third term, he explicitly told members of the coalition on Tuesday. According to Senator Marco Alirio Cortes, who was present at the meeting that…