US President Donald Trump backtracked on promises to cut aid to Colombia and impose tariffs, and will sanction top government officials instead, according to US Senator Bernie Moreno. In a flurry of interviews, Moreno said that he convinced Trump not...

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro ordered the declassification of all files in the archives of the controversial DAS intelligence agency that was dismantled in 2011. At a public ceremony, Petro formally apologized on the state’s persecut...

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said Tuesday that the older brother of US Senator Bernie Moreno from Ohio took part in a Bogota Cartel money laundering operation in the late 1990’s. During a cabinet meeting, Petro took a major jab at M...

The appeals court of Colombia’s capital Bogota overturned former President Alvaro Uribe’s fraud and bribery conviction. In a ruling of more than 700 pages, the Superior Tribunal of Bogota ruled that the prosecution failed to prove that Ur...

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President Gustavo Petro recalled Colombia’s ambassador from the United States and threatened to repeal the countries’ unpopular free trade agreement (FTA). In a post on social media platform X, Petro said that US President Donald Trump...

US President Donald Trump vowed to impose tariffs on Colombia, calling the South American country “a drug manufacturing machine.” Talking to the press aboard the presidential airplane, Trump confirmed Republican Senator Lindsay GrahamR...

US President Donald Trump suspended aid to Colombia, claiming that President Gustavo Petro “is an illegal drug leader.” In a post on his website Truth Social, Trump claimed that his Colombian counterpart “is strongly encouraging the...

The US military assassinated at least one fisherman from Colombia’s Caribbean coast and falsely accused him of being a drug trafficker, the alleged victim’s family told public television network RTVC. In an interview, Audenis Manjarres sa...

Colombia’s Congress approved a $142.2 billion (COP547 trillion) government budget for 2026. The proposal passed with 50 votes for and 27 against after the government agreed to cut $2.6 billion (COP10 trillion) in spending from its original  bu...