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With support from government allies and the opposition, Laverde takes charge of Colombia’s top fiscal watchdog as a new administration begins.

This is what Colombia's first far-right government will look like. Traditional conservatives, regional political clans, technocrats and newcomers make up the team that will govern alongside De la Espriella.

The Pacto Histórico is the largest congressional bloc, with 26 Senate seats and 43 seats in the House of Representatives, but no party holds a majority, making coalition-building essential.

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.

Only 8 months into his term as mayor of Medellín, tomato-throwing Daniel Quintero has managed to unite Paisas from labor unions to corporate giants against him.Multiple boards of directors have resigned, and Fitch has downgraded the city-owned utility's credit, citing 'governance...

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...

The results reflected the wide plurality of political views in a country that has grow highly divided in recent years.

These two coalition leaders will face off, along with others, in the May 27 election to replace outgoing two-term President Juan Manuel Santos.