Colombian Senator Alexander López, a member of the governing Historic Pact coalition, was targeted in an armed attack on the Cali–Popayán highway when FARC dissidents fired on his convoy and briefly kidnapped one of his bodyguards. President Gustavo Petro attributed the attack to a drug trafficking group led by Iván Mordisco and named the site as one kilometer from a previous bombing by the same group that killed 21 civilians, highlighting ongoing violence in the region.
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View all signals →Sandra Ortiz, a former advisor to Colombia's Gustavo Petro administration who was detained for nearly two years on corruption charges, appeared in Congress seeking to unblock her bank accounts and requesting loans. She faces investigation for her alleged role in the UNGRD scandal, which involved misappropriation of disaster relief funds intended for water trucks in La Guajira, as well as accusations of delivering 3 billion pesos in cash to then-Senate President Iván Name to secure legislative support for government reforms.