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The United States government added Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro and Interior Minister Armando Benedetti on a Treasury Department blacklist meant for drug traffickers. In a press release, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent justified the move by claiming that “Petro has allowed drug cartels to flourish and refused to stop this activity.” Bessent […]

The government of Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro has begun the process to replace the constitution with a more progressive one. Justice Minister and former Constitutional Court president Luis Eduardo Montealegre presented the bill that would start the process to replace the 1991 Constitution through an elected Constituent Assembly in the coming days. […]

Colombia’s Foreign Ministry condemned a US strike on a vessel allegedly involved in drug trafficking in the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday. In a press statement, the Foreign Ministry urged the government of US President Donald Trump “to cease these attacks” and urged Washington DC “to respect the rules laid down by international law.” The Foreign The […]

US President Donald Trump backtracked on promises to cut aid to Colombia and impose tariffs, and will sanction top government officials instead, according to US Senator Bernie Moreno. In a flurry of interviews, Moreno said that he convinced Trump not to punish Colombia, but President Gustavo Petro, for his resistance against the bombing of vessels The post […]

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro ordered the declassification of all files in the archives of the controversial DAS intelligence agency that was dismantled in 2011. At a public ceremony, Petro formally apologized on the state’s persecution of human rights lawyers and issued a decree ordering the declassification of the DAS archive. The […]

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said Tuesday that the older brother of US Senator Bernie Moreno from Ohio took part in a Bogota Cartel money laundering operation in the late 1990’s. During a cabinet meeting, Petro took a major jab at Moreno, who has played a significant role in escalating tensions between the governments of Colombia The post Bernie […]

The appeals court of Colombia’s capital Bogota overturned former President Alvaro Uribe’s fraud and bribery conviction. In a ruling of more than 700 pages, the Superior Tribunal of Bogota ruled that the prosecution failed to prove that Uribe led a criminal conspiracy that sought to frustrate investigations into his family’s alleged ties to […]

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President Gustavo Petro recalled Colombia’s ambassador from the United States and threatened to repeal the countries’ unpopular free trade agreement (FTA). In a post on social media platform X, Petro said that US President Donald Trump’s decision to impose 10% tariffs on all trade was in violation of the trade agreement “that put Colombia under The […]

US President Donald Trump vowed to impose tariffs on Colombia, calling the South American country “a drug manufacturing machine.” Talking to the press aboard the presidential airplane, Trump confirmed Republican Senator Lindsay Graham’s claim that the US Government would announce tariffs “today or tomorrow.” The US president also confirmed that […]