Colombian President Gustavo Petro has called on the indigenous Minga to mobilize for the May Day rally in Bogotá, aiming to counterbalance the huge anti-government protests on April 26.
Colombia’s Álvaro Uribe Vélez will become the first ex-President to stand trial in a criminal case on charges of witness tampering and procedural fraud. This historic legal move can only polarize and deepen the country’s fractured political landscape.
The drug violence that erupted on January 9 in Ecuador’s Quito and Guayaquil sends an ominous message across Latin America, given the nation’s long standing reputation of stability in the region.
The presidency of Colombia’s Gustavo Petro is a case study in the contradictions inherent to this new wave of leftists who dominate Latin America’s political landscape.
During President Petro’s recent three-day visit to Beijing, he failed to recognize Taiwan as a sovereign nation and pledged greater dependence of Colombia on the Chinese economy.
Gustavo Petro’s polarizing rhetoric and failure to condemn the October 7 terror attack by Hamas against Israel, should make Israeli tourists reconsider Colombia as a preferred travel destination.
The disturbing rhetoric on social media of Colombia’s Gustavo Petro against Israel and his refusal to condemn the horrific attacks by Hamas has alarming implications for his country’s standing on the world stage and among close allies.
President Gustavo Petro’s lack of condemnation of the attack by Hamas against Israel is a national disgrace, and further proof that the Colombian Government is estranged from a united community of nations.
The assassination of Ecuador’s Fernando Villavicencio underscores a broader landscape of political turmoil, with assassination plots, affecting Venezuela, and Colombia.
Colombia’s Gustavo Petro completed his 23rd international trip during his first year in office to attend the Amazon summit in Belem.
Vale anotar que la presencia del dictador Nicolás Maduro en Brasil ocasionó una fuerte protesta en la Cámara de Diputados donde, con sobrada razón, le gritaron “asesino”.
El expresidente Álvaro Uribe Vélez es un espejo de ese proceso kafkiano, despúes de que la justicia colombiana negó el upedido de un fiscal para cerrar la investigación.
Colombia’s Gustavo Petro is increasingly under scrutiny for his unfiltered use of social media and recent criticism of traditional news networks covering anti-government protests.
Opinión: Es imposible que el presidente Gustavo Petro sea y aparezca como líder de la transparencia, del deber ser del gobierno y, menos aún, de la austeridad.
Petro está utilizando un curioso método de gobierno que consiste en proponer impopulares e inconvenientes reformas e intentar, por medio de amenazas a la institucionalidad y a la democracia, que sean aprobadas.
Incomprensibles resultan los continuos llamados del Presidente Petro a “salir a las calles y plazas”, a que acudan “ríos de gente”, máxime cuando día a día la alteración del orden público es mayor.