Colombian president calls for referendum on health and labor reforms that have stalled in congress
Colombian President Gustavo Petro says he will call for a special election in which voters will be able to approve or reject ...
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Putin finds Colombia's Petro “a promising partner”
Russian leader Vladimir Putin praised Colombia's President Gustavo Petro for the latter's speech Tuesday before the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. “We share the recent words ...
Colombian president aims to reduce drug violence and weaken rebels by paying farmers to switch crops
Colombian President Gustavo Petro wants to reduce coca planting in a northeastern region rattled by rebel attacks by paying ...
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Colombia's Petro has managed to reverse disapproval ratings, from 20% to 61%
Colombian president Gustavo Petro and his “government of change” project seems to have run aground, according to the latest Invamer bimonthly poll. The president, who in August 2022 began his ...
Colombia's Petro calls referendum for stalled health, labor reforms
Colombian President Gustavo Petro said on Tuesday that he would call a national referendum so that voters can weigh in on his ...
Colombia’s First Black Vice President Stripped of Equality Role
Gustavo Petro moved his vice president out of her role as Colombia’s equality minister after she said her life was in danger ...
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Who is Colombia's President Gustavo Petro, former Marxist guerrilla and country's first leftist leader?
A recent spat publicly carried out this weekend over social media between President Donald Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro has brought renewed attention to the former Marxist guerrilla ...
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Colombian president calls on cabinet members to resign
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has called on members of his front bench to quit following a stream of resignations triggered by a chaotic televised cabinet meeting earlier in the week.
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Colombia's president orders national oil company to sell US fracking operation after backing down to Trump
Colombian President Gustavo Petro ordered his country's state-run oil company to sell off its operations in the U.S. on Tuesday, saying they would reinvest the funds into green energy. Petro ...
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Colombian President Loses Game of Chicken with Trump, Offers to Fly Back Illegals on His Own Plane 6 Minutes Later
President Donald Trump is not the man to play a game of chicken with. Colombian President Gustavo Petro learned that lesson Sunday in short order after choosing to test the newly re-elected U.S ...
Colombia's Petro to name Edwin Palma as new energy minister, source says
Colombia's President Gustavo Petro will name unionist and former vice-minister of labor Edwin Palma as the country's new energy minister, as part of a cabinet reshuffle, a source in Petro's office ...
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Colombian president urges marijuana legalization to end cartel violence
March 3 (UPI) --Colombia President Gustavo Petro is calling on his country's Congress to legalize marijuana, saying its prohibition "only brings violence" from cartels. "I ask the Colombian ...