The Office of the Inspector General of Colombia announced on Tuesday that a 17-year-old Venezuelan linked to the assassination attempt against conservative Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay “escaped” from the government welfare institute where he was receiving assistance on Monday.
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.
The U.S. House Appropriations Committee expressed concerns about reports of drug abuse “at the highest levels” of the government of Colombia.
Far-left President of Chile Gabriel Boric and the leftist heads of government of Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay, and Spain vowed on Monday to “advance global cooperation and social justice” at a gathering hosted by Boric in Santiago.
Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro claimed on Wednesday that he was betrayed by “whites, descendants of slave owners” in his government who allegedly continued to export coal to Israel despite Petro prohibiting the practice by decree last year.
Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro proposed on Tuesday to relocate the Statue of Liberty from New Jersey to the Colombian city of Cartagena in an unhinged rant against the United States’s illegal migrant policies.
United Nations “Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories” Francesca Albanese made a public appearance on Tuesday in Bogotá, Colombia, following the State Department announcing sanctions on her for years of pro-Hamas, antisemitic rhetoric, delivering a speech calling for the destruction of Israel’s economy.
Colombian authorities reportedly identified a Marxist FARC leader as a mastermind behind the failed assassination of conservative Senator Miguel Uribe.
Illegal armed groups in Colombia have significantly expanded their territorial control and added thousands of members to their ranks in the past three years of the administration of far-left President Gustavo Petro, Reuters reported on Tuesday.
Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro apologized to President Donald Trump in a letter for falsely accusing Secretary of State Marco Rubio and others of “plotting” to oust him, Colombian outlets reported on Monday.
Conservative Senator Miguel Uribe, in critical condition since an assassination attempt in June, is the frontrunner in the Colombian presidential election.
Colombia’s Council of State, the country’s top administrative court, on Friday morning rejected a lawsuit filed by two Colombian unions against conservative Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay, who has reportedly not awakened since being shot in the head this month.
Cocaine production, seizures, and use reached all-time highs in 2023, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) revealed in its latest world drug report published on Thursday.
A 55-year-old Frenchman suspected of commissioning online pedophile crimes in Colombia has been arrested and charged in France, the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Saturday.
Dozens of Colombian citizens and lawmakers gathered outside the Santa Fe Foundation of Bogotá on Monday evening to pray for conservative Senator Miguel Uribe, who remains in “extremely critical” condition after surviving an assassination attempt by a teen boy in early June.
The Colombian magazine Semana on Saturday revealed details of the testimony that the teen boy detained for shooting conservative Senator Miguel Uribe gave to local authorities.
The Investigation and Impeachment Committee of the Colombian House of Representatives announced the start of a preliminary inquiry on Wednesday against far-left President Gustavo Petro over his alleged drug addiction.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) Marxist terrorist organization launched 24 near-simultaneous deadly bomb attacks in the Southwestern regions of Valle del Cauca and Cauca on Tuesday, killing eight and leaving at least 78 injured.
Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro on Monday acknowledged that the 14-year-old arrested for shooting conservative Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay was part of his administration’s struggling “Youth in Peace” social program
The attorney representing the family of conservative Colombian Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay, who was shot in the head during a campaign event, revealed on Monday that the lawmaker had requested more security over 35 times in response to death threats, but the leftist government of President Gustavo Petro ignored them.
Colombian conservative Senator and presidential candidate hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay was shot in the head by a 14-year-old during a weekend campaign event.
Law enforcement authorities in Bogotá, Colombia, identified the person responsible for shooting Sen. Miguel Uribe Turbay at a campaign event and leaving him in critical condition as a 14-year-old boy.
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro has confirmed that 12 cartel gunmen recently arrested by Mexican military forces were former Colombian soldiers turned mercenaries. The politician claimed that selling their skills to the highest bidder was a high level of treason that should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
Mexican Army soldiers arrested a group of Colombian mercenaries believed to be behind a landmine attack that killed eight soldiers in western Mexico.
The Colombian Navy announced this week that authorities seized more than six tons of cocaine from a so-called “narco sub.”
A new report published by the Colombian magazine Semana this weekend revealed details of an ongoing power struggle between Ministers Armando Benedetti and Laura Sarabia, members of far-left President Gustavo Petro’s inner circle.
Leftist Vice President of Colombia Francia Márquez accused the government of President Gustavo Petro of engaging in “racist” practices.
Former Foreign Minister of Colombia Álvaro Leyva said he received threats after he accused President Gustavo Petro of being a drug addict.
Authorities in Mexico announced the arrest of several Colombian soldiers who were part of a paramilitary group working for Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG). The U.S. government designated the CJNG as a terrorist organization earlier this year.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) conducted its first charter flight of 64 self-deporting migrants from Texas to Honduras and Colombia.
A report published on Sunday by the Colombian news program Noticias Caracol revealed how arms traffickers are recruiting young Colombians to ship concealed firearms sent from the United States to Colombia through courier delivery shipments.
Chinese state media announced on Wednesday that Colombia has signed a “joint cooperation plan” that will bring it into the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China’s gigantic worldwide infrastructure plan.
Genocidal Chinese dictator Xi Jinping on Tuesday called for Latin American nations to deepen their ties to China.
Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro arrived in Beijing on Monday to meet with Chinese communist dictator Xi Jinping, seeking to join China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), according to Columbia’s presidential website.
Former Foreign Minister of Colombia Álvaro Leyva revealed in a letter published on Tuesday that far-left President Gustavo Petro refused to speak to Chinese communist dictator Xi Jinping for the entirety of a lavish banquet on his official visit to Beijing in 2023 — an incident Leyva claimed as evidence of Petro’s drug addiction problems.
The socialist regime of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro rejected claims made by far-left Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Wednesday that Colombian drug trafficker Jobanis de Jesús Ávila Villadiego has formed an alliance with the National Liberation Army (ELN) Marxist terror group in Venezuelan territory.
Colombian Interior Minister Armando Benedetti revealed in an interview on Sunday that he suffers from drug and alcohol addiction, asserting, “I wouldn’t want to be addicted, but I am.”
Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro proclaimed over the weekend that he wishes to “revive” Gran Colombia, a short-lived 18th century nation that encompassed much of northern South America and neighboring Panama in Central America.
Former Foreign Minister of Colombia Álvaro Leyva claimed on Wednesday that far-left President Gustavo Petro suffers from drug addiction in an explosive letter highly critical of Petro and key members of his inner circle.
