Colombian Senate President Roy Barreras called on Vice President Angelino Garzon, to explain his alleged support for establishing a national governmeny body, which would allow a committee of popularly-elected delegates…
The president of Colombia’s Senate promised to introduce new amendments to a proposed constitutional reform seeking to give legal benefits to demobilized armed actors, after meeting with Human Rights Watch…
Colombia’s ruling political group, the U Party, selected Senator Roy Barreras to serve as Senate President, local media reported Wednesday. Barreras, elected by 16 votes to opponent Jorge Eduardo Gechem’s…
Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has denied influencing the national drug agency to give land seized from traffickers to a church in Cali. At the disciplinary hearing of Senator Roy…
The Liberal senator from the First Committee of the Senate, Juan Fernando Cristo, stirred up controversy on Wednesday after saying that his party is against presidential re-elections, but only after…
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos asked Congress Tuesday to vote in favor of a reform to a legal framework for peace, saying that a controversial clause will be removed. In…
Colombia’s judicial system needs “urgent” change to guarantee justice to members of the armed forces who are accused of crimes, a senator said Tuesday. According to U Party Senator Roy…
Senator Armando Benedetti claimed that former President Alvaro Uribe will join the opposition to President Juan Manuel Santos after the upcoming October elections, newspaper El Espectador reported Wednesday. “In this…
The president of the Congressional Peace Commission claimed Wednesday that failure to reform the Justice and Peace Law will result in the release of 1,300 former paramilitary fighters, Colombia media…