The polling firms hired by Colombia’s corporate media ahead of the elections are struggling to comply with stricter polling regulations that took force last year. A commission of experts that monitors compliance with the law, reportedly recomme...

German Vargas, one of Colombia’s most powerful and controversial politicians of the 21st century, has died at 64 after a long battle against cancer. Vargas was born in 1962 into the Lleras dynasty as the grandson of former President Carlos Ller...

Colombia’s peace commissioner asked the prosecution to suspend the arrest warrants of the commander and 28 members of paramilitary organization EGC to facilitate the demobilization and disarmament of the group. The lifting of the arrest warrant...

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Colombia’s oldest guerrilla organization, the ELN, said Tuesday that it had sentenced two captured prosecution investigators to “revolutionary prison” sentences of up to six years. In a video, a spokesperson of the ELN’s Easte...

The government of Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa said that it would lower tariffs on imports from Colombia from 100% to 75% after a phone conversation with far-right presidential candidate Paloma Valencia. In a brief statement, Noboa’s ...

Colombia’s National Electoral Council (CNE) opened an investigation into Senator Ivan Cepeda, the leftist frontrunner in Colombia’s presidential election race, according to local media. The CNE reportedly agreed to investigate allegations...

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FARC dissident organization EMC said that a guerrilla attack that killed 20 civilians in southwest Colombia on Saturday was a “tactical error that lacks any justification.” In a statement, the guerrilla organization led by “Ivan Mor...

At least 20 people were killed and another 45 were injured in a series of guerrilla attacks in southwest Colombia over the weekend. The offensive began on Friday and targeted military and civil infrastructure targets in the Cauca and Valle del Cauca ...