#colombian-politics

#colombian-politics

Colombian conservative congresswoman Angela Vergara claims to be going through hell. Last Friday, she took to social media to report that her 22-year-old son, Rafael Alonso Vergara, had been detained in the United States by immigration police (ICE) and had been imprisoned and chained for 18 days. In a video posted on social media, she said: This is a person who was awaiting his legal situation, but he had his work permit and social security.

Recently acquitted of all charges in the trial of the century' that pitted him against the leftist senator Ivan Cepeda, the right-wing former president now loses the momentum he had gained as a new election campaign gets underway Alvaro Uribe, in Lexington in April 2022.Jon Cherry (Getty Images / Concordia) Former President Alvaro Uribe, the enduring figurehead of the Colombian right, had entered the nascent election campaign with some momentum.

The recent airstrike on a FARC dissident camp led by Ivan Mordisco, in which seven minors were killed in the Guaviare department of the Amazon, has placed Colombian President Petro at the center of an intense political debate. He has been particularly criticized for his shift from zero tolerance for airstrikes killing minors when he was in the opposition, to justifying them now that he is in office. However, he is not the only politician in a difficult position over this humanitarian tragedy.