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The projected winner of Colombia’s election, Abelardo de la Espriella, claimed victory and warned opponents to “refrain from sparking social unrest.” During his victory speech, De la Espriella ignored electoral authorities’ al...

Colombia’s leftist presidential candidate, Senator Ivan Cepeda, says that party lawyers will challenge the results of 27% of the ballot boxes. in a speech that followed the presidential election, Cepeda said that the lawyers of his political pa...

Colombia’s voters elected far-right attorney Abelardo de la Espriella as their new president, according to the preliminary count of the National Registry. With 99.58% of the preliminary tallies counted, De la Espriella obtained 49.65% of the vo...

The battle between De la Espriella and Cepeda has come to an end, and little is left of Colombia’s democracy. Support Colombia Reports as a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠paid subscriber⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or with a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

Colombia is preparing for one of the largest international election observation missions in its history as the country heads toward Sunday’s presidential election amid heightened security measures, dry laws and nationwide institutional alerts aimed...

Colombia’s Armed Forces and regional authorities are struggling to verify the full scale of a bloody confrontation between rival FARC dissident factions in the remote southeastern department of Guaviare after clashes reportedly left more than 50 co...

Former Colombian Foreign Minister Álvaro Leyva Durán launched a blistering attack against President Gustavo Petro just days before Colombia heads to the polls on May 31, warning of what he described as looming threats to the country’s democratic ...

Paris, London and New York are more often associated with culture, finance and history than with dangerous heat. Yet each summer all three are increasingly exposed to extreme temperatures they were never designed to withstand. Like many dense urban a...

Colombia entered the final week of campaigning on Monday ahead of a presidential election that has exposed deep political divisions, sharpened ideological tensions and raised concerns over the country’s security and economic future. The three leadi...