Tag: Gustavo Petro

• Friday, November 4th 2022 - 10:22 UTC

  Venezuela announces return to Andean Community of Nations

  

  Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Thursday announced his administration's plan to rejoin the Andean Community of Nations (CAN), a subject he had discussed earlier this week with his Colombian colleague Gustavo Petro.

• Wednesday, November 2nd 2022 - 10:12 UTC

  Petro and Maduro sign joint declaration, pledge to work together

  

  The Presidents of Colombia and Venezuela Tuesday signed a joint declaration in Caracas after their meeting marking the beginning of a new stage in bilateral ties.

• Tuesday, November 1st 2022 - 10:01 UTC

  Expectation mounts over Petro-Maduro meeting in Caracas

  

  Colombian President Gustavo Petro and his Venezuelan colleague Nicolás Maduro are to meet Tuesday in Caracas to discuss the evolution of bilateral ties after diplomatic relations between the two countries were restored following Petro's inauguration.

• Tuesday, October 11th 2022 - 10:20 UTC

  Hurricane Julia affects over 4,900 families in Colombia

  

  Over 4,900 families have been affected in northern Colombia due to the passage of Hurricane Julia, which has caused substantial damage, leading authorities to declare a state of public calamity in the department of La Guajira, it was reported Monday.

• Saturday, October 8th 2022 - 10:13 UTC

  Colombian president desists from taxing extractive industries

  

  The government of president Gustavo Petro is back stepping from one of his electoral campaign pledges, taxing extractive industries to have Colombia rapidly transit a green, environment friendly economy.

• Tuesday, September 27th 2022 - 10:12 UTC

  Colombians rally against Petro's policies

  

  Thousands of Colombians took to the streets Monday to protest against the reforms proposed by President Gustavo Petro, a former guerrilla leader who came into power less than two months ago.

• Wednesday, September 21st 2022 - 18:52 UTC

  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.

• Wednesday, September 21st 2022 - 09:34 UTC

  Petro tells world powers to change course as war on drugs has failed

  

  Colombian President Gustavo Petro Tuesday said in his first appearance before the United Nations General Assembly that the war waged by wealthier countries against drug trafficking had failed, while the world's powers insisted on their quest to controlling the world's oil and coal reserves.

• Monday, September 19th 2022 - 08:44 UTC

  Colombian gov't, dissident FARC guerrillas hold preliminary peace talks

  

  Colombia's High Commissioner for Peace, Danilo Rueda, and representatives of dissident Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) guerrillas have met during the weekend to discuss possible talks, according to a statement released on Saturday.

• Monday, September 5th 2022 - 10:27 UTC

  Petro links FARC groups to bomb trap that killed 7

  

  Colombian President Gustavo Petro said this weekend that it was very likely that dissident FARC groups were behind the bomb trap attack that killed 7 police officers last week.