Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro announced a 23% minimum wage hike, the biggest since the 1980’s. In an address to the nation, Petro said that the increase from $380 (COP1,425,500) to $466 (COP1,750,905) sought to further boost the popu...

The frontrunner in Colombia’s election race, Senator Ivan Cepeda, said “state intelligence agencies” were behind a campaign to smear him. In a video published on the social media platform X, Cepeda denounced an AI-generated recordin...

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro and many of his followers want to organize a constituent assembly to overcome what they call a “structural institutional blockade” of popular reforms. In a post on social media platform Twitter, Pe...

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 ...