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President Abelardo de la Espriella named María Consuelo Araújo as ambassador to the US, returning to diplomacy a former foreign minister from a political family marked by paramilitary and kidnapping cases.

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.

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

Prosecutor Rashid Alí Cárcamo said one of the politician's traveling companions tried to bribe the police with a promise of 100 million pesos

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...

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.