Uribe heads Democratic Center’s list of congressional candidates
Former President Alvaro Uribe on Thursday confirmed that he heads the Democratic Party’s list of candidates for next year’s congressional elections.
Former President Alvaro Uribe on Thursday confirmed that he heads the Democratic Party’s list of candidates for next year’s congressional elections.
Four of the 31 congressional candidates of former President Alvaro Uribe’s Democratic Center party are in the midst of ongoing criminal investigations, making a mockery of the party’s self-imposed “legal…
Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe may lose his last major defender in Colombia’s mainstream media as newspaper El Tiempo considers sacking columnist Jose Obdulio Gaviria for presenting fictitious events as…
Colombia’s ex-vice president Francisco Santos issued a public apology after reconciling with unions over libel and slander charges, reported local media Friday. The Colombian unions Sintrateléfonos, Sintraemcali, and Sintraunicol filed…
Two aides of former President Alvaro Uribe who met with representatives of demobilized AUC leader “Don Berna” in 2008 reject the paramilitary leader’s claims that the meeting “gave more solidity…
Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana lashed out at Jose Obdulio Gaviria, calling the close ally of former President Alvaro Uribe an “advocate and adviser to the terrorist, drug trafficker and…
An ally of Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe asked current President Juan Manuel Santos to condemn Venezuela’s refusal to allow Uribe’s team entrance to support the country’s opposition in the…
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Colombia’s former presidential adviser Jose Obdulio Gaviria publicly clashed this weekend over Gaviria’s planned visit to a Venezuelan opposition leader. Gaviria, a cousin of slain…
Supporters of Medellin mayoral candidate Luis Perez, whom current Mayor Alonso Salazar accused of using paramilitary groups and criminal gangs in his election campaigns, attacked Salazar’s allegations and denied alleged…