Tag: Colombia

• Monday, July 20th 2026 - 20:12 UTC

  Petro calls for 'general and indefinite strike' if successor repeals his reforms

  

  Colombia's outgoing president, Gustavo Petro, called on Monday for a “general and indefinite strike” should the government of his successor, Abelardo de la Espriella, repeal his administration's labor reform or reverse the land reform. De la Espriella, elected in the June 21 runoff, will take office on August 7.

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• Sunday, July 19th 2026 - 23:00 UTC

  ICE kills a Colombian and a Mexican in operations where they weren't the target, officials say

  

  Two Latin American migrants were shot dead by agents of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) within a week, in operations in which, as federal authorities and lawmakers acknowledged, neither was the intended target. The deaths revived protests and calls for accountability over President Donald Trump's immigration policy.

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• Wednesday, July 15th 2026 - 22:16 UTC

  Petro confirms he will skip De la Espriella's inauguration, repeating fraud claim

  

  Colombia's outgoing president, Gustavo Petro, has confirmed he will not attend the August 7 inauguration of his successor, Abelardo de la Espriella, whose victory he continues to reject. The decision breaks with the tradition under which the departing head of state accompanies the president-elect during the oath before Congress.

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• Tuesday, July 14th 2026 - 07:33 UTC

  Colombia: Petro bars military sites for inauguration; De la Espriella says he will go ahead

  

  Colombia's outgoing president, Gustavo Petro, has ordered that no military facility be used for the inauguration of his successor, Abelardo de la Espriella, scheduled for August 7. The president-elect responded that he will maintain his intention to be sworn in at a garrison in the south of the country, deepening the standoff between the two men less than a month before the handover.

• Friday, July 10th 2026 - 18:37 UTC

  Colombia's president-elect asks Congress to be sworn in at a military base

  

  Colombia's president-elect, Abelardo de la Espriella, has asked Congress to assess the legal feasibility of moving his inauguration ceremony, set for August 7, from Bogotá to a military garrison, in a proposal without recent precedent that will be left to the incoming legislature to decide.

• Tuesday, July 7th 2026 - 23:00 UTC

  Colombia's president-elect suspends transition, accuses Petro of attempting a coup

  

  Colombia's president-elect, Abelardo de la Espriella, froze the transition process with the outgoing government of Gustavo Petro on Tuesday and accused the president of attempting a coup, in a sharp escalation exactly one month before the handover of power, set for August 7.

• Monday, July 6th 2026 - 20:14 UTC

  Petro rejects Colombia election result, backs legal bid to annul De la Espriella win

  

  Colombia's outgoing president, Gustavo Petro, reiterated on Sunday that he does not recognize the legitimacy of the incoming government of Abelardo de la Espriella, insisting that the June 21 presidential runoff was marked by fraud — an accusation he has not backed with public evidence and which is contradicted by international observers and the official vote count itself.

• Tuesday, June 30th 2026 - 22:19 UTC

  Cepeda threatens 'civil disobedience' unless Colombia's president-elect renounces US citizenship

  

  Left-wing senator Iván Cepeda, who lost Colombia's presidential runoff, announced on Tuesday that he will resort to “peaceful civil disobedience” against the incoming government of Abelardo de la Espriella if the president-elect does not renounce his US citizenship and clarify a series of questions before taking office on August 7. The Pacto Histórico leader, from the party of outgoing President Gustavo Petro, urged his voters to join the measure, which he described as not recognizing the new president's authority.

• Tuesday, June 23rd 2026 - 18:15 UTC

  Early escrutinio stages confirm Colombia's preliminary result with 99.997% coincidence

  

  Colombia's National Registry reported on Tuesday that there is a 99.997% coincidence between the preliminary results of Sunday's presidential runoff, which gave the victory to Abelardo de la Espriella, and the municipal counts, one of the stages of the process that will lead to the official declaration of the new president. “The preliminary count coincides with the judges' tally by 99.997%,” the body said in a statement.

• Tuesday, June 23rd 2026 - 18:02 UTC

  De la Espriella says Colombia will join the US-led 'Shield of the Americas' on August 7

  

  Colombia's president-elect, Abelardo de la Espriella, said on Tuesday that the country will join the “Shield of the Americas,” the US initiative against drug cartels, on August 7, when he takes office in place of Gustavo Petro. “From August 7, Colombia will be part of the Shield of the Americas. Colombia will no longer be governed by a government complacent toward narcoterrorism; we will move to combat it as it deserves,” he wrote on the social network X, in response to a congratulation from US War Secretary Pete Hegseth.