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Colombian President Ivan Duque's withdrawal of his controversial tax hikes were not enough to stop nationwide protests in Colombia. The reason the protests continue vary, with much legitimate discontent and dissatisfaction, but provocateurs and common criminality must also be...

Carrasquilla became the personification and villain of the tax package—and dissatisfaction with the Duque administration more broadly—after admitting to Colombian journalist Vicky Davila in the weeks leading up to the protests that as one of Colombia’s elite, he had no idea how...

Colombian President Ivan Duque announced that he was asking Congress to withdraw from consideration his fiscal reform package, brainchild of his Finance Minister Alberto Carrasquilla. The controversial package was put forward to broaden the Colombian government’s revenue base,...

Beyond the tax reform, which was the primary theme of the protests, Colombians took the opportunity to express deep discontent with the current government’s failure to manage the COVID pandemic, and lack of vaccines available in the country, and the government’s failure to...

Maria Paula Duque has left her position with Avianca Airlines where she was Senior Vice President of Strategic Relations & Director of Customer Experience, and joined FTI Consulting in Colombia as Managing Director. Duque is sister of Colombian President Ivan Duque.

“No more defense of the murderous rats that today pose as human rights defenders, no more defense of evil and criminality with ornate writings”—General (ret) Luis Humberto Poveda.

Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace, set up to prosecute crimes committed during the armed conflict, announced that it was investigating the killing of 6,402 “disappeared” people, far higher than the initial figure of some 2,000 that they had originally received to...

KFC found itself in hot oil after ridiculing Colombia's President Ivan Duque online. The global fast food chain has no problem ridiculing the politicians in other countries but for whatever reason found broasting Duque for his gaffe eulogizing the Defense Minister too hot to...

Former Colombian President & Nobel Peace Prize Winner Juan Manuel Santos has accused current Colombian President Ivan Duque's administration of unlawfully offering to interfere in the upcoming US Presidential Election on behalf of Donald Trump

"The secret US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) list said Alvaro Uribe was 'dedicated to collaboration with the Medellin Cartel at high government levels' & was 'a close personal friend of Pablo Escobar' who had “worked for the Medellin Cartel." Declassified US Government...