{"id":77424,"date":"2024-03-12T11:11:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T16:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/colombia-names-new-attorney-general-after-political-tensions\/"},"modified":"2024-03-12T11:11:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T16:11:20","slug":"colombia-names-new-attorney-general-after-political-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/colombia-names-new-attorney-general-after-political-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia names new attorney general after political tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"52\">\n<div id=\"imgCarousel\" class=\"imgCarousel\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Colombia names new attorney general after political tensions\" id=\"carouselImage\" src=\"https:\/\/i-invdn-com.investing.com\/news\/world_news_2_69x52._800x533_L_1419494365.jpg\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"text\"><\/span><br \/>\n<i class=\"imgGrad\"><\/i>\n<\/div>\n<p>By Luis Jaime Acosta<\/p>\n<p>BOGOTA (Reuters) &#8211; Colombia&#8217;s Supreme Court of Justice on Tuesday chose Luz Adriana Camargo as the country&#8217;s new attorney general, following weeks of political tensions over delays in naming someone for the role.<\/p>\n<p>Camargo, a former judge who worked for the attorney general&#8217;s office for 12 years in the 1990s and early 2000s, was also an assigned prosecutor at the Supreme Court of Justice, where she investigated ties between lawmakers and right-wing paramilitary groups.<\/p>\n<p>Delays by the court in naming a replacement for Francisco Barbosa, whose term ended in February, has caused tensions with leftist President Gustavo Petro, who said it was a rupture in institutional practice and denounced attempts to remove him from power.<\/p>\n<p>Both the United Nations and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights asked for a swift process without pressure on the court. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) &#8211; Colombia&#8217;s Supreme Court of Justice on Tuesday chose Luz Adriana Camargo as the country&#8217;s new attorney general, following weeks of political tensions over delays in naming someone for the role. Camargo, a former judge who worked for the attorney general&#8217;s office for 12 years in the 1990s and early 2000s, was also an assigned prosecutor at the Supreme Court of Justice, where she investigated ties between lawmakers and right-wing paramilitary groups. Delays by the court in naming a replacement for Francisco Barbosa, whose term ended in February, has caused tensions with leftist President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":77425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}