Gustavo Petro

Venezuelan, Peruvian, Haitian, Chinese, and Afghan families endure hunger, disease, and violence while they raise money to cross the rainforest and reach Panama, on the only land route that leads from South America to the United States

The Colombian capital will become the first city in Latin America to have a permanent envoy from the largest police department in the U.S.

Authorities are investigating whether $125,000 that the country’s Federation of Education Workers (Fecode) donated to Colombia Humana, the president’s party, were unlawfully used in his 2022 presidential campaign

Multiple experts agree that extreme aridity and lack of rainfall have combined to cause over 500 forest fires so far this year. They warn that these conditions will continue until April

The Israeli prime minister has sent a letter to Gustavo Petro asking him to support the efforts to free the 136 people held captive by the Islamic group

The Colombian president left Guatemala City to an ovation after refusing to leave until the inauguration of his counterpart had gone ahead

The president is hoping to relaunch his flagging projects this year, but first he will have to contend with high-profile trials involving his son, his brother and his former chief of staff. Nicolás Petro is to be arraigned on Thursday

The presidents’ discourses on the energy transition are going in opposite directions. Both men have reduced deforestation, but while Brasilia is joining OPEC as an observer, Bogota is committed to leaving fossil fuels behind

The most populous department in Colombia has sworn in two strong critics of the president as leaders

Álvaro Córdoba, 64, was arrested in Medellin, Colombia, in 2022 and extradited to the U.S. almost a year ago by President Gustavo Petro

Local communities in Cauca Department transform the violence-wracked area into an agri-food corridor

The Colombian president’s tweets and his Foreign Minister’s issues jeopardize the most positive aspect of his administration

The president of Colombia has reached his lowest ratings since assuming office

A year and a half into the government of Gustavo Petro, the president is losing support among centrists, according to a new survey by Cifras y Conceptos

The writer of ‘The Parable of Pablo,’ the reference book on the life of the famous drug trafficker, discusses Escobar on the 30th anniversary of his death

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The Historic Pact for Colombia — the diverse left-wing coalition that brought Petro to power — faces the choice of either merging into a single party, or risk disappearing

A decree by President Gustavo Petro allowed the Almassri family to be evacuated from the war zone in the Strip and granted them Colombian nationality

Amidst political gridlock, the leftist leader has changed his strategy. This past week, he met with former right-wing president Álvaro Uribe and a group of business leaders

President Gustavo Petro announced a public-private partnership to recover precious artifacts from a Spanish galleon that sank in the Caribbean Sea in 1708

President Gustavo Petro wants results in the short term, and will not hesitate to dispense with whoever is necessary

The president of the Washington Office on Latin America notes that the strength of civil society and committed youth are encouraging signs in the region. This is despite the drop in the democratic model’s popularity, a trend that has been observed in numerous surveys

The ELN guerrilla organization refuses to renounce a practice that has affected more than 50,000 victims in recent decades

President Petro sent his chief peace negotiator to Cuba for talks with the ELN guerrilla group’s commanders

The public health measure imposes an initial tariff of 10% on ultra-processed foods and sugary drinks, which rises to 20% by 2025

Candidates from more traditional political backgrounds triumphed in the main mayoral and gubernatorial races, led by Carlos Fernando Galán’s resounding victory in Bogotá