President Abelardo de la Espriella was sworn in in Colombia’s third largest city, Cali, under extreme security precautions. De la Espriella was sworn in by the president of Congress, Senator Honorio Henriquez of the far-right Democratic Center ...

Prosecutors arrested 13 suspects and asked Colombia’s Supreme Court to investigate seven (former) governors over their alleged involvement in the embezzlement of COP3 trillion ($941 million). The arrests and the investigation requests are relat...

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Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro and data analysts presented evidence suggesting that President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella won the election through the mass manipulation of tally sheets. During a two-hour presentation, Petro claimed that ...

Colombia’s far-right President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella said that he won’t allow his country’s left to “destabilize democracy” through civil disobedience against his US citizenship. In his weekly address to the nat...

Colombia’s far-right President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella assumes office on Friday, after elections with a razor-thin margin. He brings with him promises to wield “iron fist” policies against non-state armed groups (NSAGs) and organized...

The coming four years will probably be the toughest yet and I will need your support to keep Colombia’s longest-living news source alive. The Espriella administration will be the third far-right government I have reported on since I started Colombi...

President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella has apparently given up trying to be sworn in before the military and asked Congress to allow the ceremony to take place in Cali, Colombia’s third largest city. In an address to the nation, De la Espriel...

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Medellin will be the home of the US-led “Shield of the Americas” security program, according to Colombia’s President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella and Mayor Federico Gutierrez. At a meeting with authorities from the Antioquia provi...