Conservative outsider Abelardo de la Espriella, a millionaire political neophyte, will be Colombia's next president after electoral authorities on Wednesday declared him the winner of Sunday's runoff election.

Read this updated preview for Friday's World Cup game between Colombia and Ghana. Explore the different Polymarket markets available for the game.

Colombia have won their World Cup group and head into the knockout stage dreaming of a deep run, one that may have been sparked by a humbling defeat to France just months earlier.

The incoming minister's father, Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, was serving as justice minister in 1984 when he was gunned down in Bogota on Pablo Escobar's orders.

Colombia’s incoming finance minister is pledging to implement tighter fiscal policy, warning that the nation’s budget deficit is significantly wider than official figures suggest.

Colombia and Portugal met in Miami to decide the Group K winner at the 2026 FIFA men's World Cup — the biggest ticket draw so far.

Colombia is currently in the midst of a record tourist boom; the 6.4 million international visitors who arrived in 2025 an 11% spike from the last full year in which numbers are available. When counting local citizens traveling to other parts of the country for tourism,