Bogota’s entire government resigned on Wednesday, hours after President Juan Manuel Santos announced to remove Mayor Gustavo Petro from office in spite of an international court order not to do…
Just when Colombia believed that the political career of Bogota’s mayor Gustavo Petro was over, an international court on Wednesday ordered Colombia’s national authorities to keep the dismissed mayor in…
Colombia’s State Council on Thursday called for “Timochenko,” the leader of the country’s largest rebel group FARC, to be put before an international court for crimes against humanity.
The Colombian State Council has voted down an appeal that would have kept Bogota Mayor Gustavo Petro in office, following his dismissal by the Inspector General last December, local media reported.
Colombia’s Inspector General has submitted a request to meet with the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) to explain his office’s decision to remove and politically sanction the Mayor of…
A group of Colombian citizens presented the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) with a letter Wednesday asking the international oversight body to reject the plea of Bogota Mayor Gustavo…
As Bogota Mayor Gustavo Petro’s appeal against his recent dismissal reaches the ears of international courts of justice, the increasingly high-profile, intricate and often confusing web of judicial and political…
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH) has finally stepped into a two-month long dispute over whether Bogota Mayor Gustavo Petro should lose his job over a 2012 trash-collection scandal.…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General on Thursday lashed out at the country’s Inspector General who had said rulings by the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights are not binding.