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President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella appointed Rodrigo Lara Restrepo as interior minister as Centro Democrático, Cambio Radical, and Creemos announced their support for his incoming administration.

The runoff may decide Colombia’s next president, but neither finalist commands enough seats in Congress to govern alone. Both candidates would need broad coalitions to pass reforms and implement their legislative agendas.

The largest forces in Colombia’s new Congress will be the left-wing Pacto Histórico with 22% of the vote, and the right-wing Centro Democrático with 15%. The next president will likely have to govern through coalitions and alliances.

Colombian opposition blasts Petro, accusing him of embarrassing the nation and harming vital diplomatic relations with reckless claims.

Urbe, dead at the hands of a child assassin, lost his mother to Pablo Escobar when himself a child.

Toro's only serious challenger, Tulio Gómez, a supermarket founder and football team owner, had his candidacy revoked by the National Electoral Council.

Char is accused by former senator Aida Merlano, a former lover of his brother Alex, who herself is a fugitive from justice.

On November 21, massive protests took place throughout Colombia; the largest at least since 1977, over 40 years ago. Though limited labor union strikes and university student protests are fairly common in Colombia, this was a public action unseen in Colombia for at least two...

One week ago last Sunday, Colombian voters went to the polls to choose mayors, neighborhood councils, city councils, and governors. With some notable exceptions, elections were mostly peaceful unlike past decades, but typical localized cases of vote buying and corruption were...

Sunday’s local and gubernatorial elections in Colombia saw stunning defeats for the Centro Democratico, the political party of both current President Ivan Duque and former president Alvaro Uribe. Far left senator and former revolutionary militant Gustavo Petro also saw his hand...