Colombia

With congressional elections drawing near, Colombia’s main parties have picked their candidate lists and campaign leaders. The parties’ and their candidates are supported by a collection of political machineries, activists and political barons that defend a complicated collage of political interests. Historic Pact (20 seats) Carolina Corcho The Historic […]

The family house of Angie Rodriguez, director of the Administrative Department of the Presidency (Dapre), was broken into by a group of five organized armed men. Rodriguez said in a video statement that the armed men broke in at around 02:00 at night and stayed for over an hour, and took personal documents. The administration The post Family home of […]

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Before he became Latin America’s most celebrated chef, Álvaro Clavijo spent years doing what few aspiring cooks romantically imagine: scrubbing plates in the basements of Parisian kitchens. He had left Bogotá after a brief, unsatisfying year studying architecture at Los Andes University. In Paris he dabbled in photography, learned impeccable French, and […]

Hugo Carvajal Barrios, the former Venezuelan intelligence chief known as “El Pollo,” has issued an explosive letter from a U.S. federal prison alleging that Nicolás Maduro’s government systematically used drug trafficking, criminal gangs, espionage networks, and even electoral technology as tools to undermine the United States. The 10-page statement, […]

Colombia’s interior minister said that his phone had been hacked by Israeli spyware Pegasus. In an interview with W Radio, Interior Minister Armando Benedetti revealed the alleged Pegasus infection after receiving a “technical report and the electromagnetic evidence” from independent engineers, confirming his phone had been hacked. The minister […]

A prosecutor from Colombia’s Caribbean region indicted Nicolas Petro, the son of President Gustavo Petro, on embezzlement charges. According to the prosecutio9n, Petro and his ex-wife, Day Vasquez, took approximately $29 thousand (COP111 million) from the Atlantico Governor’s Office that was embezzled through a foundation. The so-called Social […]

Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office indicted President Gustavo Petro’s former finance minister and former interior minister for allegedly buying congressional support for government proposals. The prosecutor accused Former Finance Minister Ricardo Bonilla and former Interior Minister Luis Fernando Velasco of “leading, promoting, and directing” […]

The Democratic Center (CD) said Monday that its leading presidential candidate, Miguel Uribe (no relation), has been excluded from the far-right party’s increasingly chaotic primary. In a press statement, the party said that presidential candidate Abelardo de la Espriella had called the CD’s leader, former President Alvaro Uribe (no relation), to inform […]

Colombia’s Transport Minister María Fernanda Rojas said on Monday that Avianca is close to completing mandatory software updates on its Airbus A320 fleet, with only 19 aircraft still pending intervention after a week of global disruptions triggered by what aviation experts describe as the largest recall in Airbus’s 55-year history. The grounding forced […]

Senator Iván Cepeda of the ruling Historic Pact coalition has emerged as the early front-runner in Colombia’s 2026 presidential race, according to a nationwide Invamer poll released Sunday by Caracol TV and Blu Radio. The survey – the first major measurement since the lifting of Colombia’s recent polling restrictions – places the left-wing […]

Some 4% of the world’s population, some 300 million people, have consumed cocaine in their lives. Colombia produced an estimated 70% of the cocaine consumed over the past year. In 2023, 25 million people used the illicit drug worldwide, consuming almost 3,708 tons of cocaine that is produced in the Andean region, according to the The post Cocaine […]

Colombia’s flagship carrier, Avianca, announced Friday it has grounded more than 70% of its Airbus A320 fleet after the European manufacturer issued an urgent global bulletin ordering operators to carry out immediate software updates to prevent potential flight-control failures. The disruption, one of the most severe to hit the airline in years, comes as […]

Representatives of FARC dissident group EMBF denied reports linking them to top officials in Colombia’s intelligence agency DNI and the National Army. In a press statement, three of the EMBF’s negotiators in ongoing peace talks accused “journalists of [television network] Caracol” of “trying to stop the progress of the peace process” with the […]

Colombia’s controversial election authority CNE sanctioned President Gustavo Petro’s campaign for violating spending limits. With six votes in favor and three against, the CNE ruled that the Petro campaign exceeded the limit by $1.4 million (COP $5.300 million) and was partially financed by prohibited sources like the the Ecopetrol Workers’ Union. The […]