Gustavo Petro

Colombian president Abelardo de la Espriella has offered legal assistance to a group of Colombian military veterans who were arrested over the 2021 killing of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse

The five men facing extradition are members of dissident factions of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), a left-wing rebel group that signed a peace deal with the government in 2016, and the Gulf Clan, thought to be Colombia's main drug trafficking cartel

President Abelardo de la Espriella took office earlier this month, vowing to come down hard on armed groups in Colombia, the world’s largest cocaine producer

The United States pledged $1 billion in security assistance to Colombia after its new right-wing president took office

The pre-dawn detonation caused significant damage to the building’s roofing and shattered its windows

Congress voted against De la Espriella’s candidate and instead chose a leader from the party of former President Alvaro Uribe, who has distanced himself from the president-elect

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At least 10 people have died in encounters with immigration agents since President Donald Trump launched his deportation crackdown

De la Espriella, a lawyer and businessman, secured U.S. President Donald Trump’s endorsement despite no prior office

He defeated progressive lawmaker Iván Cepeda by 1 percentage point, or more than 251,000 votes

The self-proclaimed representative of “the never-before-seen” promised voters fearful of renewed internal conflict to combat violent crime with an iron fist, pledging a strategy that includes ending outgoing President Gustavo Petro’s attempts to establish dialogue with multiple armed groups — an effort that has largely failed — and building mega-prisons, emulating those of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele

Colombia Elects Hardline Populist Who Vows War on Cocaine Gangs

Some 99 rebels from the National Coordinating Committee of the Bolivarian Army surrendered their arms in the southern department of Putumayo, three days before a runoff election that will determine the country's next president

Petro was in New York this week to attend a United Nations Security Council meeting

Colombian lawmakers are considering a proposal that would temporarily suspend President Gustavo Petro from office amid an investigation into allegations that he improperly intervened in the country's presidential election

Petro’s one-line post appears to be a comment on the nature of this quote and Zuleta Lleras’ article, which calls for new leadership in the country away from the president’s party

Minutes after winning Colombia's presidential first round on May 31, Abelardo de la Espriella did not address his country

Colombia's President Gustavo Petro criticised US President Donald Trump on Thursday for supporting hard-right presidential candidate Abelardo de la Espriella, a lawyer — and fervent Trump supporter — who made a fortune representing drug-trafficking paramilitaries, fraudsters and football stars

Colombia's hard-right presidential frontrunner Abelardo de la Espriella pledged closer ties with the United States on Tuesday after receiving US President Donald Trump's endorsement, strengthening his position ahead of a June 21 run-off election against leftist senator Ivan Cepeda

Less than two hours after polling stations closed on Sunday, it was clear that Colombia’s presidential race would be settled in a run-off between two finalists: hard-right political outsider Abelardo de la Espriella and leftist Senator Ivan Cepeda

Four years after Gustavo Petro became Colombia's first left-wing president, voters are preparing to decide whether to continue his political project or hand power to a rising hard-right challenger

De La Espriella blames President Gustavo Petro's unsuccessful attempt ​to pursue peace talks with guerrillas and crime gangs for opening the door to more drug ​trafficking and illegal gold mining

With bombings, assassinations and ceasefire announcements from armed groups, Colombia's presidential candidates are sharply divided over how to confront the worsening conflict

Bolivians began demonstrating and erecting roadblocks three weeks ago to demand salary increases, stable fuel supplies and measures to mitigate the worst economic crisis in 40 years

Bolivia expelled Colombia's ambassador, Elizabeth García, on Wednesday after accusing Colombian President Gustavo Petro of interfering in its internal affairs with comments about the country's political crisis and the legal situation of former President Evo Morales

The right-wing Ecuadoran leader has criticized Colombian President Gustavo Petro for failing to crack down on drug trafficking and illegal mining along their shared border

Colombia is offering a record 1.4 million U.S. dollars reward for information leading to the arrest of the man accused of ordering an attack that killed 21 people Saturday and wounded dozens more

The attack -- which local and national officials are blaming on armed groups -- comes one month before the country holds presidential elections on May 31

A bomb-laden bus has exploded, killing at least 14 people on Colombia’s Pan-American Highway to Venezuela

Recently, Colombian President Gustavo Petro has become the first foreign leader to visit the country, since Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro's months long abduction

The government of Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa has surged its tariffs on the neighbouring country of Colombia to 100 percent, effective May 1

The case in question is that of former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas, a left-wing figure currently serving a lengthy prison sentence for corruption

Sixty-six members of the Colombian security forces were killed on Monday, when the Hercules C-130 transport plane came down shortly after take-off near Colombia's border with Peru

At the CELAC Summit in Bogotá, Colombian President Gustavo Petro publicly challenged US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, rejecting the use of military force in global conflicts

The alleged crimes the DEA has investigated include his possible dealings with Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel and a scheme to leverage his “total peace” plan to benefit prominent traffickers who contributed to his presidential campaign

Ángel Esteban Aguilar Morales, an Ecuadorian national, arrived in Bogota on Wednesday, where he was intercepted at El Dorado Airport by Colombia’s migration authorities

On March 17, Petro posted on X a photo of an unexploded "bomb" that he said had fallen on the Colombian-Ecuadoran frontier

Colombian ministers likely to discuss trade and energy cooperation in Caracas

The results of that election will cement — or erase — Petro’s legacy at home, where voters will choose from a field including leftist Iván Cepeda, conservative Paloma Valencia and far-right lawyer Abelardo Gabriel de la Espriella

The results of that election will cement — or erase — Petro’s legacy at home, where voters will choose from a field including leftist Iván Cepeda, conservative Paloma Valencia and far-right lawyer Abelardo Gabriel de la Espriella

The results offered a glimmer of hope that Petro’s party may contend against the resurgent right in the May 31 presidential vote, which is projected to head to a runoff in June

Violence on the Campaign Trail Rattles Colombia Ahead of Elections

Senator Aida Quilcue, an award-winning Indigenous activist, was taken by unknown people in her home department of Cauca, a conflict-ridden, coca-growing region fought over by dissidents of the now-disbanded FARC guerrilla army

A supporter of Colombian President Gustavo Petro holds a sign that reads "Petro is not alone" during a rally in support of his visit to the United States for a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, in Bogotá

Latin American conservatives love to lavish praise upon the U.S. president

Gustavo Petro of Colombia and President Trump have had a tense relationship that escalated into threats by Mr. Trump, before easing

That sense of safety collapsed on Friday, when García was jailed, not by Venezuelan security forces, but by US immigration authorities

A Colombian plane that vanished minutes after takeoff crashed near the Venezuelan border, killing all 15 people on board, including a prominent politician

Latin America’s most powerful guerrilla groups are being urged to set aside years of bloody infighting and unite against President Donald Trump, according to reports

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Trumps assertive approach resembles the gunboat diplomacy of the 1850s, in which military powers seized resources from weaker nations

At the White House, President Donald Trump vows American intervention in Venezuela will pour billions of dollars into the country’s infrastructure, revive its once-thriving oil industry and eventually deliver a new age of prosperity to the Latin American nation

Just days ago, Trump had issued a warning to the South American leader for criticising the US attack that removed Venezuela’s Maduro

Trump threatens Colombia with military action

Tensions eased this week after the two leaders held a 55-minute phone call and agreed to meet in person

Venezuela’s interim leader has hit back at US plans to indefinitely control her country’s oil wealth and dictate where profits can be spent