Gustavo Petro
Colombia hosts COP16 on biodiversity and condemns capitalist devastation

The international UN conference on biodiversity attempts to achieve key agreements, and fulfill prior ones, for the protection and conservation of the earth.

Gustavo Petro warns that CNE investigation into campaign financing is part of coup plot

The Colombian head of state condemned the decision by the CNE as an attempt by the right-wing will attempt to throw him out of office using lawfare.

Colombians mobilize in support of pension reform and against “institutional” coup that would seek to remove Gustavo Petro

The President of Colombia had alerted last week that the opposition seeks to remove him from office in a legal maneuver and replace him with the head of the legislature

President Maduro responds to Lula and Petro’s call for redo election: “We are a sovereign country”

Following declarations from the Brazilian and Colombian heads of state, Nicolás Maduro told the media that Venezuela is a sovereign country and the decisions about the country would be made by its institutions.

AMLO says calling for fresh elections in Venezuela “not prudent”

Colombia and Brazil shifted their position and called for fresh elections in Venezuela, after having called for the respect of Venezuela’s sovereignty and democratic process.

Colombia’s Defense Minister denounces plot to assassinate Gustavo Petro

According to Iván Velásquez, the information about a possible attack against Gustavo Petro was provided by the US embassy. This is not the first time that the security of national government officials has been compromised.

Colombian social movements reject US-Colombia military exercises in Pacific Ocean

In a communiqué, the Peoples’ Congress declared that this military action was an attack on the sovereignty and independence of several Latin American countries

Petro’s government achieves a limited victory on its Labor Reform Bill

The country’s trade union confederations condemned that several key articles were removed from the reform during negotiations in Congress

Petro’s Pension Reform passes in Colombia’s House of Representatives

The approval of the progressive pension reform was celebrated by the Colombian president as an “important social conquest”

5th People’s Health Assembly calls for the transformation of health systems

Activists at the 5th People’s Health Assembly called for the transformation of health systems, and to build strategies and unite struggles against privatization and corporate capture

Argentine diplomats expelled from Colombia following explosive comments by Milei

In an interview with CNN, the Argentine president called Petro a “terrorist assassin”, Mexican President López Obrador “ignorant”, and declared that Israel was not committing “any excesses” in Gaza

The world stands with Lula and Palestine

The Brazilian President was recently banned from Israel after standing unequivocally with Palestine and against Israeli-perpetrated genocide