Paloma Valencia is a Colombian politician, lawyer, and presidential candidate for the far-right Democratic Center (CD). Child of political elites Valencia was born on January 19th, 1978, into two powerful families in Popayan, Cauca. Through her grand...

Evidence released by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) confirmed ties between Colombia’s former President Andres Pastrana and late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In a partial release of the so-called Epstein Files, the DOJ released a...

Colombia’s government will declare an economic emergency in response to the Senate’s refusal to approve the finance bill that sought to secure the revenue needed for the 2026 budget. The Senate decision left a $4.2 billion (COP16.3 billio...

Colombia’s war crimes tribunal JEP sentenced retired colonel Publio Hernan Mejia to 20 years in prison for his responsibility in 72 homicides committed by his forces to inflate their unit’s apparent effectiveness. The retired colonel was ...

The president of Colombia’s Constitutional Court has been forced to retract false claims that his extramarital child was the result of sexual abuse. Constitutional Court Magistrate Jorge Enrique Ibañez made the sexual abuse and other false claims ...

Guerrilla group ELN allegedly killed at least six soldiers and injured another 28 in a drone and mortar attack on a military base in northern Colombia. The attack took place in Aguachica, a municipality in the Cesar province that is considered of maj...

A Bogota judge ordered Colombia’s former finance and interior ministers be sent to jail while they are being tried on corruption charges. According to the prosecution, Finance Minister Ricardo Bonilla and former Interior Minister Luis Fernando ...

The United States’ Department of State designated Colombia’s largest paramilitary organization EGC as a foreign terrorist organization. According to the State Department, the Ejercito Gaitanista de Colombia (EGC) is called “Clan del...

Colombia’s longest-living guerrilla group ELN killed at least five people in 60 attacks that were carried out as part of its 72-hour offensive to shut down or disrupt the economy. Among those killed are two policemen from the city of Cali and t...

The far-right Democratic Center party elected senator Paloma Valencia as their candidate in Colombia’2026 presidential election. Valencia beat her colleagues, Maria Fernanda Cabal and Paola Holguin, in two separate polls that the party surveyed...