Wednesday’s encounter between ex-President Álvaro Uribe and President-elect Gustavo Petro marks a political truce between two leaders who command Colombia’s electorate.
After four years in opposition, President-elect Gustavo Petro met his political adversary President Duque to start the country’s peaceful transition of power.
President Iván Duque has ended the country’s COVID-19 Health Emergency leaving pandemic management in the hands of the incoming administration of Gustavo Petro.
Global markets are reacting to the election victory of Gustavo Petro and first leftist government in Colombia.
Colombia’s 2022 presidential election will have heightened measures given fears of violence and potential vandalism in Bogotá. Candidates Hernández and Petro to meet in a final debate.
Colombians have endured one of the dirtiest election campaigns in recent history, and will decide on June 19 whether the country makes lurch to the left with Petro or maintains stability with Rodolfo Hernández.
Cartel boss Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela has died, age 83, as an inmate of the Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, North Carolina. “The Chess player” was serving a 30-year prison sentence.
The surge in popularity of the arch-conservative candidate Rodolfo Hernández has stunned Gustavo Petro. The leftist candidate now trails Hernández in a recent poll.
Cuba eliminará el uso obligatorio de la mascarilla desde este martes, una medida que ha estado vigente durante más de dos años para enfrentar la pandemia de la COVID-19.
With less than 48-hours before 39 million Colombians head to the polls, the country is bracing for historic shift to the left should progressive candidate Gustavo Petro win the 2022 election.
Some 80,000 members of Colombia’s Armed Forces and National Police are in charge of protecting citizens from security risks during the presidential election on Sunday, May 29.
One of Colombia’s “most wanted” criminals, alias “Gentil Duarte”, and founding member of the Second Marquetalia, was killed during raid in Venezuela.
Colombia is inching to an abyss of politically uncertainty after serious allegations by leftist candidate Gustavo Petro that the May 29 elections will be “suspended”.
After promising to halt oil production in Colombia if elected president, candidate Gustavo Petro also warned of a possible end to coal exports given that the fuel is “worse than cocaine.”
The assassination of Paraguay’s top prosecutor Marcelo Pecci, as he was honeymooning with his wife in Barú occurred as the Colombian coast faced an armed strike by the violent drugs cartel- Gulf Clan.
Eight months after 1,200 members of Colombia’s indigenous peoples occupied Bogotá’s National Park, the district began relocating the settlers to temporary shelters.