The president of Colombia’s Polo Democratico party, Jaime Dussan, announced his resignation Monday after his party’s disappointing results in Sunday’s congressional elections. Left-wing party Polo Democratico received little more than 7% of…
Presidential candidate Juan Manuel Santos said Monday that Partido de la U’s victory in Colombia’s congressional elections is an endorsement of President Alvaro Uribe and the continuation of his policies.…
Latecomers raced to place their vote in Colombia’s congressional elections, as polling stations around the Andean nation closed at 4pm (ET) Sunday. Voting took place without major incident and the…
Colombian intelligence agency DAS says that security measures for this year’s elections will be tighter than ever before, reported El Tiempo on Wednesday. The director of DAS, Felipe Muñoz, said…
Colombia’s Inspector General’s Office announced that Congresswoman Eleonora Maria Pineda Arcia will be dismissed and banned from working in the public sector for 20 years due to her links with…
A new study found that Colombia has one of the lowest numbers of females working for government bodies, ranking 113th in a study of 140 countries worldwide, reported Semana on…
Eighteen candidates standing for Colombian Congress in March’s elections are named in ongoing proceedings of the Supreme Court’s Justice and Peace tribunal, reported El Tiempo on Wednesday. The majority of…
The Colombian Supreme Court will use the Constitutional Court’s ruling on Colombian President Alvaro Uribe’s re-election referendum to advance proceedings against the 86 Congressmen who voted in favor of the…
Colombia’s monumental Congress building was overrun on Wednesday by hundreds of meter-long ants, placed there by Colombian artist Rafael Gomez Barros. The swarm of fiberglass creatures attached to the facade…