The man most likely to become Colombia’s next president this Sunday has played a previously undisclosed role as a corporate officer of the company hired to run the nation’s elections over the last decade, while he was a political leader,...

Reporting from Bogota, Colombia - Leftist rebels on Tuesday freed one of Colombia’s longest-held hostages, an army corporal seized by insurgents when they overran his base in December 1997. The release of Pablo Emilio Moncayo, 31, came two days...

Twenty-five current and former municipal officials were arrested Friday on charges of colluding with rightist militias in the northwestern province of Antioquia, the Colombian Attorney General’s Office said.

The center-left coalition that has ruled this country for two decades is being jolted by the insurgent presidential campaign of the telegenic son of a famous guerrilla leader. Seven weeks before Chile’s election, Marco Enríquez-Ominami, a...

Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has said he may run for a third term if his coalition fails to unite around a strong candidate, prompting debate on Thursday about the future of democracy in the conflict-weary country. Uribe, an important U.S. ally in...