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Outgoing Colombian President Gustavo Petro called on his supporters to protect his government's social and economic reforms and resist any efforts by the nation's incoming administration to change ...
News Colombia » Bogota » Politics: Colombia to host office of Trump's anti-cartel alliance: president-elect
Colombia will host an office belonging to US President Donald Trump's "Shield of the Americas" initiative, the South American country's hard-right president-elect announced Tuesday.He has also vowed ...
News Colombia » Bogota » Politics: Colombia's president-elect says intelligence points to $900,000 contract hit on him
Weeks before taking office, Colombia's president-elect says armed groups put a $900,000 price on his life.
News Colombia » Bogota » Politics: Colombia's vote may reshape the Amazon's future as political winds shift across Latin America
Abelardo de la Espriella, set to be Colombia's president, has intensified debate over the future of the Amazon.
News Colombia » Bogota » Politics: How a ‘white elephant’ ended up in Colombia’s Congress
An anti-corruption candidate rose to fame for highlighting government waste – and doing it in an elephant costume.
News Colombia » Bogota » Politics: Two sides of a political chasm share one fear in Colombia’s presidential race: A return to the past
BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — The memories of Colombia’s six decades of armed conflict are still like open wounds etched on its victims’ bodies and minds. For Blanca Nubia Monroy, it’s a black-and-white ...
News Colombia » Bogota » Politics: Pablo Escobar murder victim's son is named Colombia's interior minister
The incoming minister's father, Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, was serving as justice minister in 1984 when he was gunned down in Bogota on Pablo Escobar's orders.
News Colombia » Bogota » Politics: The Rebuilding of the Bogotá-Jerusalem Axis
It is against this backdrop that we should understand the eventual rebuilding of relations between Colombia and Israel—a strategic alliance forged over more than seven decades and fractured by ...