Colombia’s healthcare is collapsing partly because 93% of President Ivan Duque’s $1.5 billion (COP8.2 trillion) financial injection to confront COVID-19 never arrived. Investigative journalism website Cuestion Publica reported Thursday that…
Mayors and governors throughout Colombia blocked President Ivan Duque’s attempt to restart the economy on Sunday by maintaining their decrees restricting mobility. Bogota Mayor Claudia Lopez, whose city has been…
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque cannot count on the support of Bogota Mayor Claudia Lopez to relax the country’s quarantine at the end of this month. In fact, if Duque would…
Colombia’s lawmakers urged President Ivan Duque on Thursday to facilitate virtual sessions while Congress is closed because of the coronavirus pandemic. Congress remained closed after the end of its three-month…
President Ivan Duque plunged Colombia into chaos on Wednesday after an unlawful attempt to usurp powers of local and regional authorities. Duque issued a national emergency decree on Tuesday that…
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque reignited protests against himself in the capital Bogota on Wednesday after revoking local authorities’ measures to combat the coronavirus. Residents in the capital spontaneously began banging…
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque on Wednesday overturned curfews imposed by governors and said the medical federation’s recommendation to impose mandatory isolation was “absurd.” In an absurd change of events, Duque…
More than half of Colombia’s governors have implemented curfews to prevent coronavirus outbreaks as President Ivan Duque is under fire over his perceived ineptitude. The governors have been advancing drastic…
While officially a free market democracy, Colombia’s state system and economy are rigged by “clans” that are largely above the law. These clans’ ability to almost usurp the country’s democracy…