The official TikTok account of the presidency of Colombia posted a video over the weekend using footage from the upcoming film Barbie to invite Colombians to the federal government’s July 20 Independence Day celebrations.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) documented record-high coca cultivation and cocaine production throughout 2021 in its 2023 World Drug Report, released on Monday.
More than 90,000 Colombians gathered on the streets of 15 of Colombia’s main cities on Tuesday in the latest round of peaceful protests against radical leftist President Gustavo Petro and the leftist reforms his government seeks to implement.
Colombia’s radical leftist President Gustavo Petro is reportedly studying the possibility of establishing an international fund to finance the Marxist National Liberation Army (ELN) terrorist organization so that they stop “committing crimes” against Colombian citizens.
Far-left president Gustavo Petro became embroiled in a series of complex scandals erupting this week, dubbed Niñeragate (“Nannygate”), stemming from accusations of abuse of power and illegal wiretapping involving two of Petro’s inner circle allies.
A survey published by Colombian polling agency Datexco on Monday found that 55 percent of Colombians would like to have a president like El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele in their country.
Thousands of retired military and police officers in Colombia filled Bolívar Square in the nation’s capital, Bogotá, on Wednesday to peacefully protest the security policies of radical leftist President Gustavo Petro.
Far-left Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s disapproval rating reached 57 percent this week, its highest point so far, according to the results of a poll conducted by the Colombian survey agency Invamer released on Wednesday.
The “International Conference on the Political Process in Venezuela,” organized by Colombian radical leftist President Gustavo Petro, concluded on Tuesday with no results beyond a statement with recommendations made by participating countries for both Venezuela’s socialist regime and the establishment “opposition.
Venezuela’s former President Juan Guaidó arrived in Miami, Florida, on Tuesday morning from Bogotá after Colombian migrant authorities forced him to board a plane out of the country.
Leftist Colombian President Gustavo Petro told reporters on Thursday that his leftist American counterpart Joe Biden was “interested” in a scheme to pressure the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other global banking institutions to offer debt relief to countries that promise to invest in fighting the “climate crisis.”
CARACAS, Venezuela – Colombian Ambassador to Venezuela Armando Benedetti claimed on Tuesday that the Biden Administration is evaluating lifting American sanctions on the Venezuelan socialist regime.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro, a radical leftist and once-member of the Marxist April 19th (M-19) Movement guerrilla, touted his past as an urban insurgent in a plea to the Organization of American States (OAS) on Wednesday to implement “revolutionary” reforms to its Democratic Charter.
The mayor of Medellín, Colombia, Daniel Quintero Calle, announced this weekend that the city’s council has approved the budget to build a new metropolitan jail in the same style as the one built by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele and recently inaugurated in February.
The Ombudsman’s Office of Colombia warned on Thursday that the government had reason to believe a wing of the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) terrorist organization had turned an entire town in the nation’s west into a recruitment and training center for child soldiers.
Colombian far-left President Gustavo Petro and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele clashed on Wednesday after Petro, a former member of a Marxist terror guerrilla, called Bukele’s “mega prison” for alleged gang members a “concentration camp.”
Colombia’s left-wing President Gustavo Petro, a former urban guerrilla fighter who spent ten years running with a murderous Marxist insurgent gang in the 1970s, turned against his ideological fellow traveler Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua on Thursday.
Thousands of Colombians flocked to the streets on Wednesday to peacefully express their dissatisfaction with the nation’s far-left President Gustavo Petro and to protest proposed socialist reforms.
The foreign affairs commission of the Congress of Peru declared Colombian far-left President Gustavo Petro persona non grata on Tuesday after Petro compared the actions of Peru’s National Police in response to the ongoing wave of violent leftist riots there to those of Nazi Germany.
The Colombian Defense Ministry announced on Saturday that cocaine seizures in 2022 added up to 671 metric tons, which was 1.7 tonnes more than the already record-setting total from 2021.
Energy Minister Irene Vélez of Colombia confirmed on Thursday that the South American nation will stop awarding new oil and gas exploration contracts, a decision that she described as “absolutely urgent.”
Colombia’s far-left President Gustavo Petro told the World Economic Forum, a gathering of the world’s global elite, on Wednesday that surviving climate change requires humans to “overcome capitalism.”
The governments of Guatemala and Colombia are at an impasse after Guatemala’s Special Prosecutor’s Office Against Impunity announced on Monday that it would take unspecified “legal actions” against Colombian Defense Minister Iván Velásquez.
The latest batch of the “Twitter files” document dump released by Matt Taibbi on Tuesday revealed that throngs of Russian-operated bot accounts on Twitter supported far-left Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s campaign last year.
Colombia’s far-left vice president Francia Márquez demanded on Monday that United Nations member states commit to “establish[ing] historical reparations actions” for Afro-descendants and African people in the name of “racial justice.”
Parents and lawmakers expressed outrage Wednesday over a proposed piece of legislation that seeks to implement “sexual education spaces” across all public and private schools in Colombia.
Colombia’s far-left President Gustavo Petro delivered a speech to the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt on Monday in which he called for an immediate halt to using fossil fuels and presented a list of “ten commandments” to fight off climate change.
The ambitious tax reform spearheaded by Colombia’s far-left president Gustavo Petro was finally approved by both chambers of Colombia’s Congress on Thursday. The tax plan, introduced by Petro a day after he took office in August, hopes to collect upwards of 20 billion Colombian Pesos ($4 billion) from 2023 onwards.
CARACAS, Venezuela – Colombia’s far-left President Gustavo Petro traveled to Venezuela on Tuesday to meet with socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, the first official encounter between both heads of state after the re-establishment of diplomatic ties between both countries in August.
Production of coca crops and potential production of cocaine in Colombia reached its highest recorded levels in two decades in 2021, according to a report published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s (UNODC) Integrated Illicit Crop Monitoring System (SIMCI) this month.
Colombia’s far-left President Gustavo Petro accused the United States on Wednesday of “ruining all the economies of the world,” deflecting blame as Colombia, whose economy is currently at risk of entering a recession, faces the worst decline in the value of the country’s peso currency and the highest annual inflation rate in over two decades.
The Director of Colombia’s National Directorate of Taxes and Customs (DIAN), Luis Carlos Reyes, declared on Thursday that it is “time to legalize and tax” cocaine in the South American nation, the world’s top cocaine producer.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken continued his ongoing tour of Latin America, landing in Peru on Thursday, where the Organization of American States (OAS) will be holding its annual General Assembly.
Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro said during a press conference with Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Bogotá on Monday that Temporary Protection Status (TPS) for Colombian nationals in America was “necessary” in anticipation of a global “exodus” allegedly caused by climate change.
Thousands of conservatives convened in at least 35 cities in Colombia on Monday to protest a series of government reforms proposed by far-left President Gustavo Petro, including tax increases to fund social programs, establishing ties with Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, and building a universal health care system.
Venezuelan socialist Oil Minister Tareck El Aissami – a U.S.-designated drug kingpin – announced on Thursday that his regime has formally requested 23 “international warrants” and contacted Interpol to arrest legitimate President Juan Guaidó and the former president of Colombia, Iván Duque.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro devoted much of his speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday to call for an end to the United States’s “war on drugs” while denouncing the consumption of “poisonous” coal and oil.
The governments of Latin America offered solemn condolences to the people of the United Kingdom and the Royal Family over the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, paying their respects to Britain’s longest-ever reigning monarch.
Colombia’s far-left President Gustavo Petro announced a plan to end the nation’s special permit to carry weapons in remarks during a Security Council meeting on Wednesday – a plan that would leave Colombians with no legal way of owning firearms.
The government of Marxist ex-guerrilla member President Gustavo Petro in Colombia sent an ambassador to Venezuela on Sunday and accepted his counterpart representing the socialist regime of dictator Nicolás Maduro, restoring ties broken under the previous conservative president over the illegality of Maduro’s leadership of the country.