Gustavo Petro

After eight months of talks, an unprecedented bilateral ceasefire has finally been agreed with the guerrilla group, which has been active since the 1960s

The arrest of Nicolás Petro is a major blow to the government. President Gustavo Petro said early Saturday that he wouldn’t interfere with the probe but was pained to see one of his sons going to jail

The president began the second legislative session since his administration began. He defended his commitment to the energy transition and his policy of ‘total peace.’ While did not mention his much-criticized healthcare reform, he did call for a national political agreement to create ‘a more just and productive society’

Samuel Santander Lopesierra, the former smuggler who was extradited to the United States, is back and wants to rule his city

Diego Molano and Jaime Arizabaleta, pre-candidates for the mayoralties of Bogotá and Cali, have proposed building prisons inspired by Nayib Bukele’s crusade against crime

Gustavo Petro, Iván Duque and Juan Manuel Santos all dealt with Nicaragua’s case against the South American country at The Hague. Vice President Francia Márquez praised the ICJ ruling for paving the way to ‘improving the living conditions of the Raizal people’

Mothers, sisters and wives of at least 35 unjustly detained people in El Salvador ask the government of Gustavo Petro to help them guarantee the human rights of their relatives

The governor of Buenaventura, the country’s main seaport, has asked authorities to send in the army to protect the population from armed gangs engaged in turf wars

Over 300 peace signatories and their families have left Vista Hermosa after being threatened by dissidents. Two members of the community were murdered in May

The president, who began his mandate in August 2022 with 56% support, is trying to regain the initiative after several crises that have damaged his popularity

Former uniformed officers admitted to having ultimate responsibility for 49 ‘false positives,’ and hiding the bodies in a cemetery so that the victims’ families could not find them

Macron invites dozens of world leaders to redefine financial architecture and release funds for low-income countries at risk due to environmental crisis

Chinese are now the fourth-largest nationality crossing the dangerous jungle route through Panama. The number of Afghans, Indians and Bangladeshis is also increasing

The bill that sought to regulate the purchase, sale and distribution of marijuana did not obtain enough votes in the upper house

EL PAÍS speaks with the indigenous volunteers who located the minors, a soldier who rappelled into the forest to find them and the commander leading the search effort about the trials of the 40-day mission

Colombia’s political crisis is growing, as questions surround the president’s former chief-of-staff and ambassador to Venezuela in a case involving wiretaps and a dead member of Petro’s security detail

The executive director of the Artemisas Foundation talks about equality, women’s representation in elected office and the political and economic violence suffered by women leaders in her country

Following the ceasefire agreement in Havana with the country’s last armed rebels, President Gustavo Petro urged the U.S. to remove the Caribbean island from its state sponsors of terrorism list

Since the four children were rescued from the Amazon jungle, the operation has shifted its focus to finding a six-year-old Belgian shepherd who went missing during the mission

The father of the infants, Manuel Ranoque, has shared details of their 40-day ordeal in the Amazon, and warned that FARC dissidents have threatened to kill him

According to authorities, the four minors only have bites and skin lesions despite surviving a plane crash and wandering the jungle for 40 days

The eldest of the siblings looked after the others, and kept them alive thanks to what she had learned from growing up in the rainforest

The Cuba agreement, fully effective as of August, is the first major achievement of total peace, Gustavo Petro’s flagship policy

Revelations about Gustavo Petro’s former chief of staff Laura Sarabia highlight the pitfalls of unrestrained intelligence services, empowered to ignore the rights and freedoms of citizens

The former Ecuadorian president is not ruling out convening a Constituent Assembly to invalidate the 2018 referendum that prevents him from running for reelection

The allegations of lawfare, proscription or overthrow attempts such as the one suffered by Lula in January are clouding regional politics

Between January and March 2022, 35 kidnappings were registered in the South American country. In the same period of 2023, the figure doubled. Among the current victims is an 87-year-old man, the oldest hostage in the world