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"...and I say it once and for all, in projects of law that generate FORCED INVESTMENT in the private financial system of Colombia" - President Gustavo Petro

The resolution brings an end to the long-running corruption and bribery saga surrounding Corficolombiana and Odebrecht's illicit attempts to gain favor with officials overseeing the Ruta del Sol 2 highway project.

In an unwieldy city without the resources to set itself on the right path, the candidates for Bogotá mayor are all destined to fail — just as others have been before.

The political scandal that saw President Petro's coalition implode and the de facto suspension of the reform process was little more than a tremor on the Colombian Richter scale. Now the earth is properly moving.

Colombian Air Force Crash, Petro scandal takes weird turn, Uribe acolyte charged with corruption

Former presidential candidate Óscar Iván Zuluaga faces charges related to a $1.6 million payment from the disgraced Brazilian company.

Tensions rose further after Guatemala's president referred to the Colombian president's guerilla past.

While Castillo has had no connections to the Odebrecht scandal, he appears to have run very similar schemes within government to those which his predecessors were brought down for.

Prosecutors say Arizabaleta can't justify his 360 million peso jump in assets from his time as a government official.

What can observers take from events in Peru? And what takeaways are relevant for Colombia’s upcoming 2022 elections, and for economic and civil liberty more broadly in the Americas? Daniel Raisbeck has some prescient observations.