Alvaro Uribe

Colombia’s Historic Pact, the ruling leftist coalition led by President Gustavo Petro, chose Senator Iván Cepeda as its 2026 presidential candidate in Sunday’s primary elections.

Conservatives throughout the world celebrated the announcement on Friday that Venezuelan anti-socialist lawmaker María Corina Machado had won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work against the narco-terrorist regime of Nicolás Maduro, declaring her a “very deserved” winner.

An appellate court in Bogotá, Colombia, overturned a decision to force conservative former President Álvaro Uribe into house arrest even as he appeals a lower court verdict, declaring him a minimal flight risk and his imprisonment a violation of the presumption of innocence.

Latin Americans “know that President Trump just wants them to be safer,” fueling a rise in support for conservatives that could reshape the future of the region, Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) told Breitbart News in an interview on Monday following a visit to Bogotá, Colombia.

A court in Colombia sentenced conservative former President of Colombia Álvaro Uribe Vélez over the weekend to 12 years of house arrest on charges of abuse of procedure and bribery of a public official.

Growing threats to democracy in Colombia are being fueled in part by a cocaine boom under a Marxist president, Colombian Senator Paloma Valencia told Breitbart News on Wednesday, urging America to help fight the influence of criminal drug gangs.

A Colombian judge on Monday convicted conservative former President Álvaro Uribe Vélez on charges of abuse of process and bribery of a public official in a trial widely denounced as irregular by local and international politicians and his supporters.

Conservative former President of Colombia Álvaro Uribe Vélez helped defuse a short-lived diplomatic crisis between Colombia and the United States caused by far-left President Gustavo Petro on Sunday, The New York Times reported on Monday.

Politicians across the political spectrum in Colombia panned far-left President Gustavo Petro’s short-lived “trade war” with President Donald Trump and are calling for his impeachment and urging Congress to investigate his actions.

Colombian far-left President Gustavo Petro repealed a decree over the weekend that criminalized the carrying and consumption of “personal doses” of narcotics in the country, allowing citizens to possess up to one gram of cocaine without legal repercussions.

Parents and lawmakers expressed outrage Wednesday over a proposed piece of legislation that seeks to implement “sexual education spaces” across all public and private schools in Colombia.

Thousands of conservatives convened in at least 35 cities in Colombia on Monday to protest a series of government reforms proposed by far-left President Gustavo Petro, including tax increases to fund social programs, establishing ties with Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, and building a universal health care system.

The first series of polls out following Sunday’s presidential election in Colombia showed on Wednesday that much of the country is uniting against far-left candidate Gustavo Petro for next month’s runoff, backing elderly outsider businessman Rodolfo Hernández.

Far-left socialist candidate Gustavo Petro, a former member of the M19 Marxist guerrilla, won the first round of Colombia’s presidential election on Sunday.

The last-minute surge of outsider candidate Rodolfo Hernández in the Colombian presidential race suggest he could leap into second place in Sunday’s election, guaranteeing a place in a runoff, likely against far-left candidate Gustavo Petro.

CARACAS, Venezuela — Colombian citizens will head to the polls on Sunday, May 29, to choose who will be their nation’s president for the next four years.

Multiple reports Tuesday morning out of Cali, Colombia, painted violent scenes of rioters burning down buildings, including a prominent hotel, and confronting armed civilians protecting their property as nationwide riots near one week of public terror.

Protests broke out across Colombia on Wednesday after the country’s Supreme Court ordered the house arrest of former conservative President Álvaro Uribe on charges of witness tampering.

BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Hundreds of thousands of left-wing activists took to the streets throughout Colombia Thursday to demonstrate against President Iván Duque, resulting in violent clashes between protesters and the police.

Orley García, conservative candidate for the mayorship of Toledo, Antioquia, Colombia, became the latest victim of suspected Marxist FARC terrorism, dying after being shot 13 times, El Tiempo reported Sunday.

Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe was attacked with a bag of mice during a session of Congress on Tuesday, prompting condemnation from all sides of the political spectrum.

Colombia’s conservative right clinched a decisive victory Sunday, handing the reins of the country over to now President-elect Iván Duque.

Colombia officially declared conservative candidate Iván Duque the winner of Sunday’s presidential election after decisively defeating his hard-left opponent Gustavo Petro.

Colombia is preparing to vote to replace President Juan Manuel Santos on Sunday, in an election with significant implications for both the United States and the region as a whole.

The Colombian legislature has passed an updated version of the peace accord proposed by President Juan Manuel Santos and the FARC, over protests from opposition legislators who say it is unconstitutional to agree to such a deal without a democratic vote.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and the head of the deadly Marxist narco-terror group FARC signed a new “peace deal” Thursday after Colombians rejected the amnesty deal in a popular vote last month.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has announced the conclusion of a new “peace deal” with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a Marxist terrorist group. This agreement appears to be designed to avoid a national referendum and thus another round of humiliation if the people reject it again.

Ingrid Betancourt, a former Colombian presidential candidate who spent six years as a hostage of the FARC, said Friday that she believed FARC leaders deserved to share the Nobel Peace Prize with this year’s winner, President Juan Manuel Santos.

By a razor-thin margin, the Colombian people have rejected a peace deal that would have allowed one of the nation’s oldest narco-terrorist groups, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), to establish its own political party with drug money and many of its leaders to avoid prison time for human rights violations.

Colombia has agreed on a deal to reintegrate the guerrilla population of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the world’s wealthiest non-jihadist terrorist group, into Colombia’s civilian communities, a move President Juan Manuel Santos claims marks a definitive end to the half-century-long war between the government and the FARC.

An estimated 250,000 Colombians took to the streets of 22 cities on Saturday to demand President Juan Manuel Santos cease negotiations with the dreaded FARC terrorist group, as well as cancel plans for similar negotiations with the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla.

Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe, who during his tenure worked closely with the United States to eradicate Marxist terrorism from the nation, is accusing the current government of detaining his brother Santiago as a “political prisoner,” and President Juan Manuel

The Colombian government’s attempt to legitimize the FARC terrorist organization has resulted in the emboldening of the world’s wealthiest non-jihadist terror group, details the Wall Street Journal’s Mary Anastasia O’Grady.

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the world’s wealthiest non-jihadist terror group, is condemning the Colombian government’s proposal to stage a plebiscite in which the Colombian public would approve or reject the peace deal signed by the terrorist organization in Havana in September.

A new poll shows that, despite public support for a peace deal with the FARC terrorist group, a significant portion of the population of Colombia remains uncomfortable with the idea of FARC terrorists abandoning the guerrilla lifestyle and settling into civilian life.

Former Colombian president and current senator Álvaro Uribe claimed on Twitter that FARC terrorists “forbade” the local agricultural population from joining him at a political rally in the nation’s mountainous interior region on Sunday.