Santiago Gallon, one of the most infamous business associates of Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe, has been assassinated in Mexico, local media reported. Gallon, a financier of paramilitary organization AUC and alleged drug trafficker, ...

The National Electoral Council (CNE) barred Colombia’s leading presidential candidate, Senator Ivan Cepeda, from participating in a multipartite primary that sought to unite the left ahead of the elections. The decision forced Cepeda’s pa...

Paramilitary successor organization EGC suspended peace talks with Colombia’s government after President Gustavo Petro allegedly promised his US counterpart Donald Trump to arrest their commander. In a post on social media platform X, the organ...

Illegal armed groups in Colombia have undergone significant expansions last year and can count on more than 27,000 members, a conflict monitoring NGO said. According to the NGO Ideas para la Paz (FIP), statistics provided by military intelligence ind...

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Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro met with his US counterpart Donald Trump in the White House on Tuesday for what he called a “positive”  but sometimes “confusing” meeting. The two-hour meeting appeared to have success...

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro arrived in Washington DC on Sunday for a diplomatic offensive that includes a meeting with his US counterpart Donald Trump. In Tuesday’s meeting in the White House, Petro will seek to put forth “Co...

Colombia’s Constitutional Court suspended an economic emergency declared by President Gustavo Petro in response to a senate commission’s controversial refusal to put the financing of the government’s budget up for debate. Petro and ...

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Fifteen people, including a congressman, were killed in a plane crash in the northeast of Colombia on Wednesday. The plane disappeared from the radar on Wednesday afternoon while it was flying from the border city Cucuta to Ocaña, another town in th...