BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombia's leftist President Gustavo Petro on Wednesday signed a decree to hold a referendum on labor reforms, an attempt to force the Senate to vote on a proposal on the matter ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s labor unions on Wednesday began a 48-hour strike in support of a referendum proposed by President Gustavo Petro to let voters to decide whether to overhaul the ...

BOGOTA, Colombia – It's been heralded as a historic peace deal to end Latin America's longest-running conflict. But there is a major hurdle the deal still needs to clear: a national referendum on Oct.

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia’s government Tuesday published the contents of a proposed referendum on reform of the nation’s labor laws, that seeks to give employees greater access to health benefits ...

Electoral authorities say nearly 250 municipalities in Colombia are at risk of violence or fraud affecting the referendum on an anticipated peace deal with rebel group the FARC, adding to the ...

Colombia’s Congress on Wednesday received the first draft of the bill that seeks a change in the law allowing for a referendum on a potential peace agreement with rebel group FARC to be held ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Thursday pressed on with his struggling plan to overhaul the country’s labor laws, sending Congress a referendum proposal whose questions for ...

Colombia's government is planning to sign a new peace deal with FARC rebels on Thursday after the public rejected a previous deal in October. The revised proposal will not be put to a popular vote but ...

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo today, in recognition of his four-year effort to guide peace negotiations with Colombia’s largest rebel group, the ...