Tag: Colombia

• Wednesday, August 24th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Former M-19 guerrilla becomes Colombia's intelligence chief

  

  President Gustavo Petro has appointed his fellow former M-19 guerrilla combatant Manuel Alberto Casanova to head the Colombian National Intelligence Directorate (DNI), which will be for the first time not be run by a military officer.

• Tuesday, August 23rd 2022 - 09:31 UTC

  Colombian Attorney General lifts arrest warrants against ELN brass

  

  Colombia's Office of the Attorney General has confirmed it would lift all arrest warrants on National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels, following President Gustavo Petro's instructions.

• Monday, August 22nd 2022 - 18:27 UTC

  Petro tells Colombian armed forces to be ready to become an “army of peace”

  

  Colombian President Gustavo Petro instructed military and police officers to get ready for the transformation he intends to lead, which includes seeking peace through dialogue with the National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels.

• Monday, August 15th 2022 - 10:07 UTC

  Petro shakes-up Colombia's military brass

  

  Just one week after his inauguration, Colombian President Gustavo Petro sent 52 generals into retirement. The biggest sweep in Colombia's history is aimed at putting together a corruption-free brass.

• Saturday, August 13th 2022 - 09:27 UTC

  Colombia: ELN rebels release hostages while returning to peace talks

  

  As peace negotiations between the Colombian Government and the National Liberation Army (ELN) kick off in Cuba, the guerrilla movement has released nine people who were being held hostage since last month in the department of Arauca.

• Friday, August 12th 2022 - 13:51 UTC

  Petro: Pecci murder by Uruguayan drug trafficker “shows that drug trafficking has long ceased to be a US-Colombian bilateral problem”

  

  Colombian new president Gustavo Petro has referred to the murder of Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci, who was killed in May on the island of Barú, in the Colombian Caribbean. This crime has been linked this week to Uruguayan drug trafficker Sebastián Marset, fugitive of Uruguay’s and Paraguay’s justice, and accused of ordering Pecci’s execution.

• Monday, August 8th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Petro sworn in as President of Colombia: times of change ahead

  

  Gustavo Petro was sworn in Sunday as Colombia's first-ever leftwing president, thus succeeding the conservative and highly unpopular Iván Duque.

• Wednesday, August 3rd 2022 - 08:59 UTC

  Petro's liaison team releases report on the state of Colombia

  

  Colombian President-elect Gustavo Petro's liaison team with the outgoing administration of Iván Duque released earlier this week a report on what to expect when the first-ever leftwing head of state is inaugurated Aug. 7.

• Friday, July 29th 2022 - 19:15 UTC

  Boosted by Brazil and Mexico, Latin America's economy expected to expand 3% in 2022, IMF

  

  Given the improved performance of Latin America's largest economies, particularly Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Chile, the IMF has raised the 2022 growth projection for the Latam and the Caribbean.

• Wednesday, July 27th 2022 - 21:19 UTC

  Future Colombian VP meets with Lula in Brazil

  

  Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers' Party (PT) welcomed Colombia's Vice President-elect Francia Márquez, who is on a South American tour before taking office on Aug.7.