Gustavo Petro

The recent deaths of 15 forcibly recruited minors in military operations have sparked an unprecedented crisis for the Colombian president

Leaders on both the left and right are criticizing forced recruitment of children by illegal groups more harshly than the state’s actions

Extremist commentators and Donald Trump himself are spreading misinformation and exaggerations about the protests to bolster justifications for a direct attack on the cartels

The president rejects calls to suspend military action against armed groups, saying it would be like helping them recruit more children

An EL PAÍS exclusive reveals the hidden figure that symbolizes the failure of the world’s largest producer to accurately measure its own production

The Mexican president announces that a protocol for working in international waters has been agreed upon with a view to stopping the attacks

Gustavo Petro has suspended the sending of confidential information to the Donald Trump administration, but Washington was already offering little cooperation to Bogotá and other key allies

The operation by the now-defunct M-19 guerrilla group in the heart of Bogotá, and the military response to it, left a hundred dead, a dozen missing, and a decimated judicial leadership

Figures from the global far right, the libertarian movement, evangelical churches, and retired military officers took the stage at an event that drew 15,000 people

The senator of Colombian descent and the representative from Florida are the most visible faces of the effort to undermine Colombia’s political left ahead of presidential elections

Bogotá’s intelligence service is targeting the New Drug Trafficking Board amid the crisis with Washington. Gustavo Petro claims this organization wants to assassinate him

The government of Gustavo Petro has granted garment manufacturers’ request to remove tariffs on imported raw materials, while cotton producers warn that the move will devastate their sector: ‘We are facing extinction’

The Treasury’s accusations put those involved at risk of losing their accounts in the country due to the pressure the banks face over to their ties to the US and international financial system

It is unlikely that all the boats attacked by the United States belong to artisanal fishermen, says an official with the Colombian Navy

The veteran senator doubled Carolina Corcho’s lead at a vote organized by the Historic Pact, a center-left to far-left coalition

The Pentagon’s announcement comes after the 10th extrajudicial attack against an alleged drug-running boat

Jeison Obando Pérez is recovering in a Bogotá hospital from injuries he sustained in the attack, and will likely be released despite US demands for his arrest

The US president calls the Colombian leader a ‘thug’ and a ‘bad guy,’ and Petro announces legal action for slander

President Gustavo Petro suspects that at least one of the US attacks in the Caribbean occurred in Colombian waters

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former Colombian president urges restraint from Donald Trump and Gustavo Petro after their clash on Sunday

The South American nation is anxiously waiting to see if Donald Trump will impose new tariffs, as he has threatened to do over his clashes with the Colombian president

Gustavo Petro’s government orders the return of Daniel García-Peña to Bogotá, following the recent clash with the Trump administration

The story of the co-founder of the criminal gang, who has been imprisoned in Bogotá since June 2024, reveals how he turned Colombia into the group’s operational hub and financial refuge

The US president has announced that tariffs will soon be imposed on the South American country

In 2022, the lawyer became the first Peruvian woman to hold the top office, but saw her approval ratings drop to record lows by the time of her removal on Thursday

Colombian President Gustavo Petro lamented the deaths and tied them to the war on drugs despite no evidence to back it up. ‘They killed our youths,’ he posted on X