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Bomb attack on Colombia highway kills 19 ahead of election

election A highway bomb attack in southwestern Colombia has killed 19 people and injured at least 38, the latest spate of violence ahead of next month’s presidential

Bomb blast on Colombia highway leaves at least 20 dead ahead of May elections

elections The death toll in a weekend highway bombing in [Colombia](https://www.theguardian.com/world/colombia) has risen to 20, with another 36 people injured, amid a surge of violence ahead of presidential

Trump admirer’s surprise first-round win is a blow to Colombia’s traditional conservatives

Colombia’s border with Venezuela. A resurgence of violence has been an issue in the presidential election

Death toll in Colombia highway bus bomb attack rises to 20

Colombia's presidential election on 31 May. Petro, himself a former guerrilla fighter, has been pursuing a controversial peace strategy with various armed factions which has seen intermittent ceasefires and periods of relatively little violence

Colombia's escalating, brutal internal conflict is defining its presidential election

Colombia border last year displaced tens of thousands of people. The two presidential candidates have starkly different visions for tackling this violence, in a campaign marked by the assassination of a presidential candidate, homicides, kidnappings

Colombia prepares to go to polls in election shadowed by resurgence of political violence

violence that has reached its highest levels in a decade – and that has made the decades-long internal armed conflict central to this Sunday’s presidential election. The vote will be a contest between left

Right-wing candidate pulls ahead in first round of Colombia's presidential vote

presidential election results are announced in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, May 31, 2026. **Matias Delacroix/AP** Matias Delacroix/AP ### Vote is seen as a referendum on Petro The election — 10 years after Colombia signed an historic peace pact

Colombia goes to polls in election pitting outgoing leader’s ally against pro-Trump candidates

presidential election, choosing between candidates with radically diverging visions for the future of peace in a country haunted by decades of armed conflict. The vote on Sunday, seen as a referendum on outgoing President Gustavo

Violence escalates in Colombia with dozens of attacks before presidential vote

Violence escalates in Colombia with dozens of attacks before presidential vote ![Relatives of victims pay respects at the site of an attack on the Pan-American Highway in Cajibio, Colombia, Sunday, April 26, 2026, where

Two presidential campaign staffers killed in Colombia as elections near

election on May 31. “Violence, threats, and any form of intimidation undermine public debate, deepen risks for political and social leaderships, and weaken democratic coexistence,” the office said in a statement. Meta has long been

Colombian election reflects on ‘total peace’ promise as violence surges again

violence in [Colombia](https://www.theguardian.com/world/colombia).” Petro’s peace promise has become a key issue before the election’s first round on 31 May. The constitution does not allow for re-election, and the president

Ghost of far-right paramilitaries hovers over Colombia’s presidential runoff vote

presidential runoff vote in [Colombia](https://www.theguardian.com/world/colombia), the country’s next leader will have a personal history intertwined with one of the criminal forces at the heart of a decades-long armed conflict that

Celebration, shock and scepticism follow Colombia’s presidential election

election Less than two hours after polling stations closed on Sunday, it was clear that Colombia’s presidential race would be settled in a run-off between two finalists: hard-right political outsider Abelardo

At least 20 killed in Colombia highway blast

violence,” Joao Valencia, 42, a relative of a woman killed in the attack, told the AFP news agency, holding up her picture. “These kinds of women should die of old age, not have their lives