The National Electoral Council (CNE) rejects a claim that Antanas Mockus cannot run for Bogota mayor due to his double political affiliation, Caracol Radio reported Monday. Judge Jose Joaquin Silver ruled…
The president of the U Party has denied that the proposed Liberal Party reunification will hurt his party, despite rumors that several U Party senators will follow the Cambio Radical…
A proposed legal referendum on implementing life imprisonment for convicted child rapists failed Tuesday in Colombia’s House of Representatives, reported La Semana weekly. With a vote of 14 in favor…
The Conservative Party demanded Wednesday that the Prosecutor General’s Office speed up the investigation against those responsible for the 1995 murder of Conservative Party Senator Alvaro Gomez Hurtado. The party…
Former Colombian beauty queen Debbie Castañeda denied being a sex-party girl of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi Wednesday after accusations in Italian media. Italian newspapers claim her name surfaced in wiretaps conducted by Italian…
The dubious results of voter intention polls in the Antioquia and Quindio departments may lead to an investigation by Colombian electoral authorities, newspaper El Espectador reported Wednesday. One of the…
Roughly 155 pistols and 40 semi-automatic weapons have mysteriously disappeared from Colombia’s House of Representatives. According to newspaper El Tiempo, records provided by the Congress’ warehouse show that the majority…
Green Party candidate Enrique Peñalosa was top choice for voters in the Bogota mayoral election, according to an opinion poll conducted by news program CM& and the National Consultancy Center. Less…
Colombia’s inspector general severely criticized a report by NGO Nuevo Arco Iris regarding electoral candidates with criminal backgrounds. Inspector General Alejandro Ordoñez Maldonado said “[the one] who can disqualify is…