Who would have thought I’d be talking Colombia to baseball manager Connie Mack who, more than 50 years after his death, still is considered more relevant than this politician with the same name. I am saddened that a sportsman of your level serves the interests of Colombia’s mafia to harass their alleged victims. You are […]
Colombia’s prosecution on Tuesday called the policemen who discovered that the party of President Ivan Duque sought mafia support to rig the 2018 elections to trial. According to the prosecution, the two police intelligence officials were illegally wiretapping other policemen suspected of corruption. Colombia jails policemen who discovered 2018 election fraud conspiracy Prosecutor General Francisco […]
Colombia’s public school teachers laid down work for 48 hours on Tuesday and joined protesting native Colombians in an escalation of protests against President Ivan Duque. The teachers laid down work a day before a national strike that is organized by students, labor unions and dozens of other social organizations that have been organizing anti-government […]
Racial discrimination in Colombia wasn’t a criminal offense until 2011 after a centuries-long history of white supremacy that persists until this day. The concept of white supremacy was introduced by the Spanish after their arrival in the early 16th century, but 500 years later it is alive and well, especially when it comes to indigenous […]
Incumbent US President Donald Trump should leave Colombia out of his election campaign as not doing so can only have negative consequences. Whenever there’s an election in the United States I stay out of it for the simple reason that no American has ever asked me for my opinion. My American readers should vote for […]
A Bogota court revoked the house arrest of Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe after the Supreme Court referred his alleged witness tampering case to the ordinary justice system. According to the judge ruling over Uribe’s indictment, the Supreme Court’s decision to refer the far-right politician’s case to a lower court effectively removed the legal basis […]
Colombia’s foreign ministry is seeking to block migrant visas for foreign journalists in its latest attempt to restrict the freedoms of the press and expression. In an email, the Foreign Ministry told journalist Brendan Corrigan that “applying the current norms, the immigrant visa as freelancer is discarded for the profession of journalists.” Migratory regulations do […]
Having passed a devastating peak in mid-August, the coronavirus appears to have leveled out in Colombia, infecting approximately 7.000 people a day and killing 175, according to the Health Ministry. The pandemic’s appears to remain stable after leaving a confirmed 25,000 people dead and the government has all but reopened the country’s economy. The statistics […]
The government of Colombia’s President Ivan Duque plunged into a crisis on Thursday after the defense minister refused to comply with a Supreme Court order to curb police brutality. “The rule of law is at stake,” said opposition representative Katherine Miranda (Green Alliance) after calling on Congress to remove Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo “right […]
Colombia’s El Dorado airport in Bogota resumed limited operations on Monday with flight to, among others, the United States. Bogota’s airport is one of four airports that will be handling international flights following strict biosafety measures to prevent outbreaks of the coronavirus that forced President Ivan Duque to suspend all international travel in March. The […]