Colombia

The logistics of Colombia’s 2026 elections will again be largely in the hands of an off-shore company that all but bungled the congressional elections of 2014 and 2022. The National Registry announced on Wednesday that it would outsource the logistics of the presidential and congressional elections to a temporary consortium of which Thomas Greg & The […]

The United States ambassador returned to Colombia as part of bilateral attempts to overcome a crisis caused by an alleged plot to out President Gustavo Petro. In a post on social media platform X, acting US ambassador John McNamara said that he hoped that the countries’ governments can “revert the current negative tendency in the The post Colombia and […]

A Bogota judge announced on Tuesday that she will decide on whether to absolve or declare Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe guilty of fraud and bribery on July 28. Judge Sandra Liliana Herrera made the announcement after hearing Uribe’s closing statement in which he asked to be absolved of the charges leveled against him. According to The post […]

United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio recalled his acting ambassador from Colombia after President Gustavo Petro sent a letter of reconciliation to his American counterpart Donald Trump. In the letter, which was sent on June 23, Petro called on Trump to “make way for an honest and respectful conversation between our countries” amid suspicions […]

The Comptroller General’s Office (CGO) issued an alert about an ongoing degradation of Colombia’s public healthcare system, which is owed more than $8.2 billion (COP32.9 trillion) by private intermediaries called EPS’s. In its annual report, the financial watchdog said that the debt of the EPS’s rose to COP32.9 trillion in 2024 compared to $25 […]

Colombia’s police reportedly arrested the alleged coordinator of a plot to assassinate far-right Senator Miguel Uribe. According to local media, Elder Jose Arteaga, a.lk.a. “Chipi” or “Costeño,” was arrested in the capital Bogota less than two weeks after the local police offered a $75 thousand (COP300 million) reward for information reading to […]

Colombia’s President Gustavo Gustavo Petro recalled his ambassador from Washington DC in response to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s announcement that he had recalled his acting ambassador from Bogota. Rubio recalled John McNamara, the Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, “for urgent consultations following baseless and reprehensible statements from […]

A Bogota court ordered the arrest of Carlos Ramon Gonzalez, the former administration chief and the former director of intelligence agency DNI of Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro. The court ordered the detention of Gonzalez amid an investigation into the embezzling of funds of disaster management agency UNGRD between mid 2023 and February 2024. Judge […]

Colombia’s foreign minister, Laura Sarabia, resigned less than half a year after she took office. In her letter of resignation, Sarabia said that “decisions have been made that I do not share” and “can’t support.” In the last few days, decisions have been made that I do not share and that, out of personal coherence The post Colombia’s foreign […]

Colombia’s President Gustavo pressed criminal charges against his former Foreign Minister Alvaro Leyva over an alleged plot to oust the Head of State. The criminal charges follow recordings published by Spanish newspaper El Pais in which Leyva was heard discussing his plans to “get rid” of Petro with the help of US congressmen “within three The […]