Documents revealing the Supreme Court testimony of a former official of Colombia’s drug enforcement agency (DNE) explain how seized mafia assets ended up in the hands of corrupt politicians. The…
Agriculture Minister Juan Camilo Restrepo has rejected accusations that the Land Restitution Law will foster unwanted occupations of land, Colombian media reported. On Wednesday, the minister released a press statement…
The Colombian administration has announced that over the next four years, $43 billion from the recently approved National Development Plan will be spent on peace consolidation programs. According to the…
President Juan Manuel Santos announced that the Colombian government will allot approximately $14 billion (COP 26 trillion) to assist victims of this year’s extreme weather as part of the newly…
After long debate in the Senate and Congress, President Juan Manuel Santos’ “National Development Plan 2010-2014” gets the green light. The ambitious Plan proposes an investment of approximately $316 billion…
Colombia’s Supreme Court has ordered the detention of a sitting member of Congress, Lucero Cortes, for allegedly trying to influence a judge, Caracol Radio reported Wednesday. Cortes is to begin…
Proposed changes to Colombian intelligence and counterintelligence laws, including the dismantling of DAS, have been approved following debate in the First Commission of Congress, local media reported Wednesday. The proposed…
An audit conducted by government health agency SuperSalud has found numerous irregularities in the provision of medication and mismanagement of funds by numerous Colombian health insurance companies, reported RCN Tuesday.…
A new debate has broken out in Congress over sentencing laws in the proposed Anti-Corruption Statute. The current debate centers on an article of the statute that, if passed, would…