Colombia

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. […]

Hezbollah’s growing foothold in Latin America has found its epicenter in Venezuela and along the porous 2,000-km long Colombia-Venezuela border, where U.S. lawmakers and former counterterrorism officials warn the militant group has built financial and logistical networks with the support of the Maduro regime and illegal armed groups. “Venezuela is a […]

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 […]

The United States said it destroyed a vessel carrying narcotics in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, killing two people it described as “narco-terrorists,” in what marks the first U.S. military strike away from Caribbean waters under President Donald Trump’s expanding campaign against drug trafficking groups. “Yesterday, at the direction of […]

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 […]

Colombia’s Superior Tribunal of Bogotá has overturned the conviction of former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez, declaring him innocent of bribery and witness tampering in one of the country’s most divisive political trials in decades. The ruling by the tribunal’s Criminal Chamber revoked an earlier judgment by Bogotá’s 44th Circuit Court, which in […]

To view this content, you must be a member of Colombia's Patreon at $2 or more - Click "Read more" to unlock this content at the source The post Explainer: Petro and Trump’s latest spat appeared first on Colombia News.

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 […]

U.S President Donald Trump triggered a political firestorm in Colombia after announcing on his social media platform – Truth Social – the immediate suspension of all financial aid and imposition of punitive tariffs on Colombian exports. The decision came after he branded President Gustavo Petro an “illegal drug leader.” Trump’s extraordinary […]

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 […]

In an extraordinary escalation that threatens to end decades of strategic partnership, U.S. President Donald J. Trump on Sunday labeled Colombian President Gustavo Petro an “illegal drug leader” and announced the immediate suspension of U.S. financial aid to Colombia. Speaking from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida and posting on his Truth Social […]

US President Donald Trump suspended aid to Colombia, claiming that President Gustavo Petro “is an illegal drug leader.” In a post on his website Truth Social, Trump claimed that his Colombian counterpart “is strongly encouraging the massive production of drugs, in big and small fields, all over Colombia.” Petro “better close up these killing […]