The Most Complete Electronic Guide to Colombia

Colombia is a single-state Democratic Republic. The nation is administered by Legislative,Executive and Judiciary branches:

•    The Congress of the Republic, made by the Senate and the House of Representatives.

This is the legislative power of the country.

•    The Supreme Court of Justice is the entity which guarantees the rule of the law. The Constitutional Court vigils the

Political Constitution of Colombia. The actual Constitution of Colombia  was written and endorsed in 1991 by a Constitutional

Assembly. It completes and replace the Political Constitution of 1886.      
•    The President of the Republic , in cooperation with the Council of Ministers, leads the executive power. There is also a Vice-President

elected democratically by popular suffrage. The President of Colombia is elected democratically for a term of four years and recently there was a

Constitutional reform allowing a President to be re-elected for a second term. The Residence of the President of Colombia is in the Casa

de Nariño in Bogotá.

•     The local administrations have a similar democratic structure at their level.

There is a Departmental Assembly (Asamble departamental) which is the legislative and decisional instrument on local issues, a Departmental Tribunal of Justice and various governors of the departments. The municipalities have also their local structure: Municipal Council, Municipal Tribunal and the major.

The Presidents of Colombia of the last decades (Pictures of Free distribution. The Pictures of César Gaviria belongs to Hernán Díaz published by BLA Digital):

Virgilio Barco                   César Gaviria                Ernesto Samper         Andrés Pastrana Gómez      Alvaro Úribe Vélez

1986-1990                      1990-1994                      1994-1998                         1998-2002                      2002-2006-Current