Colombia

Spanish newspaper El Pais confirmed that Colombia’s former Foreign Minister Alvaro Leyva sought US support for a plan to overthrow President Gustavo Petro. According to the newspaper, audio recordings of Leyva and testimonies from people close to the US Government confirmed Petro’s allegations of an impending coup d’état. Prosecutor General Luz […]

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Colombia’s prosecution exposed former President Alvaro Uribe’s alleged “strategy to manipulate the course of criminal justice” to obscure his family’s alleged links to paramilitary organization AUC. According to the prosecution, Uribe has been trying to intimidate witnesses since at least February of 2012 when the former president pressed criminal […]

Representatives of Medellin’s gangs said Tuesday that they helped municipal authorities to artificially lower homicide statistics since 2002. In an interview with public television network RTVC, jailed former mafia bosses “Carlos Pesebre” and “Douglas” rejected Mayor Federico Gutierrez’s opposition to the peace process between the national […]

The trial against Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe entered its final stretch on Tuesday when the prosecution began its closing statement. Over the past months, the prosecution presented more than 40 witnesses, dozens of wiretap recordings and documents to prove that Uribe bribed witnesses to fabricate criminal charges against those investigating […]

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Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said that his government will be voting on a constituent assembly in next year’s elections. In a post on social media platform X, Petro said that the congressional approval of a historic labor reform on Friday was due to the mobilization of the masses. “The constituted power that makes laws obeyed The post Petro […]

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro withdrew a referendum on Friday after Congress approved much of the labor reform that was initially shelved by a Senate commission. Both houses of the Congress approved the labor reform bill hours before going on summer recess until July 20. The votes that ratified the labor reform, which has been proposed The post […]

Investigators of Colombia’s police and prosecution have arrested all but one of the alleged members of a team of sicarios that took part in the attempted assassination of far-right Senator Miguel Uribe earlier this month. Prosecutor General Luz Adriana Camargo announced the fourth arrest in the investigation into the attempted assassination of one of the […]

Colombia has been admitted to the development bank of international trade organization BRICS, bank president Dilma Rousseff announced on Thursday. In a statement, the office of President Gustavo Petro called the admission to the New Development Bank “a historic milestone for the country and a strategic step towards the diversification of financing sources […]