Gustavo Petro

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

Caught in the crossfire between his two closest confidants and fixated on conspiracies, the leftist leader is unable to get anything done

Pedro Sánchez, commander of special forces, is in charge of the search for four minors who went missing a month ago, when their plane crashed in the Colombian rainforest

Four minors were murdered by FARC dissidents, once again highlighting the extent of the war crime in the South American nation

The end of a ceasefire between the Colombian government and an armed group known as the Estado Mayor Central (EMC) has put new pressure on the disarmament process

The leader has been criticized for favoring immediacy over caution on the social network, a problem that came to the fore when he wrongly tweeted that four missing children had been found

The father fled his town in the Amazon after receiving threats, and his wife and children were on their way to meet him when the plane they were traveling in crashed. Eighteen days later, the minors have still not been found

A survey found that 55% of Colombians would like to have a president like the one in El Salvador; meanwhile, some local candidates are promising to import his rigid security model

Colombia’s retired and reserve military are a powerful political force and tend toward conservatism, leaving the president with balancing act in a country that has not seen a coup since 1953

Traditional Afro and indigenous medicine is nothing new. It is part of national and international medical standards, and it is practiced daily in cities like Bogotá

In an interview with EL PAÍS, the president of Colombia urged citizens to ‘express themselves’ to defend his government’s reforms and prevent these from being blocked by ‘very privileged groups’

The leftist leader has tired of negotiating with the traditional conservative parties over his reform plans and intends to mobilize his support base after a Cabinet reshuffle

An international summit organized by President Gustavo Petro shows how the South American country’s foreign policy has drastically changed in recent months

He had crossed the border into the country to try to meet with some participants at Tuesday’s international conference to discuss Venezuela’s political crisis