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Guaidó in Colombia: “Petro is an accomplice of Maduro”

By The City Paper Staff - January 21, 2020

Venezuelan leader Juan Guaidó referred to Gustavo Petro, the socialist Senator and former Mayor of Bogotá, as an “accomplice of the Maduro dictatorship.”

Colombia decides between right and left in historic runoff election

By The City Paper Staff - June 17, 2018

In an historic runoff election Sunday, June 17, more than 36 million Colombians will decide on the future of their country’s economic model and peace process with FARC.

Bogotá mayor Gustavo Petro faces the prosect of a referendum which could force him from office.

Bogotá’s Petro: A Mayor down, but not out

By The City Paper Staff - June 17, 2013

Down, but not out. Bogotá’s Mayor Petro faces an uncertain future as signatures collected for his ouster are accepted by the nation’s Registrar.