President Iván Duque has ended the country’s COVID-19 Health Emergency leaving pandemic management in the hands of the incoming administration of Gustavo Petro.
Global markets are reacting to the election victory of Gustavo Petro and first leftist government in Colombia.
Colombian voters had their say Sunday with the definitive run-off between leftist politician Gustavo Petro and conservative Rodolfo Hernández. Petro President 2022-2026.
Colombia’s 2022 presidential election will have heightened measures given fears of violence and potential vandalism in Bogotá. Candidates Hernández and Petro to meet in a final debate.
Colombians have endured one of the dirtiest election campaigns in recent history, and will decide on June 19 whether the country makes lurch to the left with Petro or maintains stability with Rodolfo Hernández.
Between Cartagena and Barranquilla, tourists flock to a 12-meter-high volcano to wallow in a mud bath of minerals.
Two largest shipwrecks have been spotted on the ocean floor by the Colombian Navy and close to the where the legendary San José galleon is located.
Cartel boss Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela has died, age 83, as an inmate of the Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, North Carolina. “The Chess player” was serving a 30-year prison sentence.
The surge in popularity of the arch-conservative candidate Rodolfo Hernández has stunned Gustavo Petro. The leftist candidate now trails Hernández in a recent poll.
A first case of Acute hepatitis of unknown origin has been confirmed by Colombia’s National Institute of Health, and among hundreds of new cases identified by health authorities worldwide.
Petro first round victory was assured on Sunday, yet his main rival is no longer right-winger “Fico” Gutiérrez, but the arch conservative real estate mogul Rodolfo Hernández.
Some 80,000 members of Colombia’s Armed Forces and National Police are in charge of protecting citizens from security risks during the presidential election on Sunday, May 29.
Colombia is inching to an abyss of politically uncertainty after serious allegations by leftist candidate Gustavo Petro that the May 29 elections will be “suspended”.
In the last Guarumo poll released before the May 29 presidential election, the percentage points of front runners Gustavo Petro and Federico Gutiérrez remain virtually unchanged.
The election race in Colombia is drawing to a close with front running candidates reaching out to both urban and rural populations.
After promising to halt oil production in Colombia if elected president, candidate Gustavo Petro also warned of a possible end to coal exports given that the fuel is “worse than cocaine.”