Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Gustavo Petro

U.S. open to discussing Colombia trade deal with next president

The Biden administration is willing to discuss the existing U.S.-Colombia trade agreement with the Andean country’s next president, a senior U.S. official said, as Washington dispatched a high-level delegation on Thursday to begin forging a relationship with him on a wide range of issues.

Reuters

Colombia's congress begins new session with ambitious reform agenda

Colombia's congress opens its new session on Wednesday, with a slate of ambitious tax-and-spend and other legislation on the horizon under incoming President-elect Gustavo Petro, intended to combat poverty and inequality.

Reuters

UN: Optimism at new Colombia leader, but concern at killings

The U.N. special envoy for Colombia says that “there are good reasons for optimism” about the country’s incoming left-leaning administration

The Independent UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Colombia tax reform to target high-earners, says incoming agency head

A tax reform proposed by Colombia's President-elect Gustavo Petro will raise $10.9 billion annually via a progressive income tax, the elimination of business exemptions, and tackling evasion, his incoming tax agency head said on Thursday.

Reuters

Colombia’s incoming finance minister wants fair capitalism

Colombia’s next finance minister says the left-leaning government taking office next month will focus on increasing taxes on the rich so it can spend more on poverty programs

The Independent UK

Afro-Colombian politician tapped as ambassador to Washington

A veteran Afro-Colombian politician who studied in the Soviet Union and fled his country after being kidnapped by a paramilitary group has been named Colombia’s next ambassador to the United States

The Independent UK

At Colombia-Venezuela border, a trade revival is eagerly awaited

Colombia's leftist president-elect, Gustavo Petro, pledged on the campaign trail to end neighboring Venezuela's isolation, normalize relations with the socialist government in Caracas, and get trade flowing.

Reuters

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Colombia: Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez have achieved a historic victory for the left – so who are they?

It was, said Francia Márquez Mina, a victory for “the nobodies”. Speaking in Bogota on June 19 after the results of the Colombian presidential election were announced, the newly elected vice-president struck a jubilant note after becoming the first black woman to be elected to the office – on a…

The Conversation

Colombia's Petro picks Jose Antonio Ocampo as finance minister

Colombia's leftist President-elect Gustavo Petro has picked Jose Antonio Ocampo to be finance minister in his government when he begins his term in August, he said on Thursday.

Reuters

War on drugs prolonged Colombia’s decades-long civil war, landmark report finds

Truth commission’s report, touted as a chance to heal after half a century of bloodshed, called for a ‘substantial change in drug policy’

The Guardian - US

Colombia truth commission gives scathing report on civil war

A Truth Commission has presented its final report on Colombia’s armed conflict, urging the government, military and rebel groups that are still fighting in the countryside to recognize the suffering victims have endured and ensure that political disputes are no longer solved through violence

The Independent UK

Collapse of bullfight stands in Colombia leaves four dead, hundreds injured

Chaos overtakes city of Espinal after wood and bamboo stands collapse during cultural festival

The Guardian - US

Colombia Could Have Had a Coke-Legalizing, TikTok-Famous President. They Elected a Socialist Instead.

President-elect Gustavo Petro could easily take Colombia in an illiberal direction.

Reason

New Colombian president pledges to protect rainforest

Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first elected leftist president, will take office in August with ambitious proposals to halt the record-high deforestation rates in the Amazon

The Independent UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Reuters

Colombia president-elect Petro names peace envoy as foreign minister

Colombia's leftist president-elect Gustavo Petro named long-time politician and peace envoy Alvaro Leyva as the first member of his future cabinet on Saturday, ahead of Petro's August inauguration.

The Hindu

Yes, the Left is back in Latin America

In many ways, the new ‘pink tide’ points to a different Left, as Gustavo Petro’s election in Colombia shows

Reuters

Colombia president-elect firms up congressional allies; handover begins

Colombian President-elect Gustavo Petro on Thursday began to firm up party alliances that could give him a congressional majority and met with the country's current president to start the handover process.

The Independent UK

Colombia: president-elect looks to build governing coalition

President-elect Gustavo Petro, who has vowed to lift up Colombia’s poor and disenfranchised, has won the support of an influential party of the establishment as he tries to build a majority coalition in Congress

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Hindu

Paradigm shift: On Colombia’s first leftist President

Under a new President, Colombia has an opportunity for stable growth after years of drug wars

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Colombia’s election: a chance for a change

Editorial: The emergence of a progressive politics in a country traditionally in the grip of the right should be welcomed

Miami Herald

Colombia’s president-elect talks to Maduro about reopening border with Venezuela

Colombia’s president-elect Gustavo Petro is wasting no time in fulfilling his promise of normalizing relations between his country and the socialist regime in Caracas, discussing with Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro the reopening of the border between the two nations three days after winning the election.

Reuters

Latin America's new 'pink tide' gains pace as Colombia shifts left; Brazil up next

Latin America's new "pink tide" is gaining pace after Colombia elected its first leftist leader Gustavo Petro, with Brazil expected to follow suit in elections in October, an echo of a regional political shift in the early 2000s.

The Independent UK

Inside a reintegration camp for Colombia’s ex-guerrilla fighters

For the almost 13,000 former Farc guerrillas, the end of the conflict in 2016 initiated a process of ‘disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration’. Camilo Tamayo Gomez and Gavin Hart spoke to the ex-combatants looking to move on

The Independent UK

Leftist's election to test Colombia's alliance with US

It’s one of the United States’ few enduring alliances in an often-turbulent Latin America, one built around a decades-long partnership combating the nation’s drug cartels

Reuters

Colombian President-elect Petro says he had 'very friendly' call with Biden

Colombian President-elect Gustavo Petro said on Tuesday he had had a "very friendly" telephone call with U.S. President Joe Biden.

1 … 35 36 37 38

People

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.