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Montevideo, December 23rd 2024 - 10:12 UTC

Tag: Colombia

  • Wednesday, July 5th 2023 - 11:06 UTC

    Colombia's Petro has managed to reverse disapproval ratings, from 20% to 61%

    Until February, Petro’s approval rating had been higher than the percentage who disapproved of him.

    Colombian president Gustavo Petro and his “government of change” project seems to have run aground, according to the latest Invamer bimonthly poll. The president, who in August 2022 began his mandate with a 56% approval rating and 20% against, now in a reversal of expectations has a disapproval rating of 61%.

  • Wednesday, July 5th 2023 - 10:36 UTC

    ELN announces one-month truce starting Thursday

    ELN members must be prepared to “respond to threats or attacks from any armed group against our units or against the civilian population”

    Colombia's National Liberation Army (ELN) ordered its forces to stop “offensive military actions” as of July 6, it was reported Tuesday in Bogotá. In a message posted on the rebel group's website, its members were advised to be prepared to “respond to threats or attacks by any armed group against our units or against the civilian population.”

  • Friday, June 30th 2023 - 10:47 UTC

    Petro says false positives were “the worst contemporary crime”

    Petro made these statements while his approval ratings are rapidly decreasing

    Colombian President Gustavo Petro stressed Thursday that the so-called “false positives” were “the worst contemporary crime.” He was referring to the more than 6,400 extrajudicial executions committed by federal troops supposedly fighting rebel guerrillas. Petro made those statements after eight military personnel admitted their participation in some of those executions.

  • Wednesday, June 28th 2023 - 10:13 UTC

    Colombia and Venezuela ranked as “least peaceful” countries in Latin America; Uruguay sets standard

    Colombia and Venezuela are ranked as the least peaceful countries in Latin America, while Uruguay is the least violent in the region.

    According to a study published on Wednesday by the Institute for Economics and Peace, Colombia and Venezuela have been considered the “least peaceful” countries in Latin America due to socio-political conflicts and internal violence.

  • Saturday, June 10th 2023 - 10:31 UTC

    Colombian gov't, ELN sign 6-month truce

    Petro hopes to achieve total peace by 2025

    The Government of Colombia and the National Liberation Army (ELN) Friday signed in Havana a 180-day “national”, “bilateral” and “temporary” ceasefire effective from August 3, it was reported. The UN and the Catholic Church will supervise compliance.

  • Saturday, June 10th 2023 - 09:50 UTC

    Miracle in the Colombian rainforest

    President Petro wrote on Twitter and posted a photo of military personnel and indigenous people, purportedly involved in the rescue operation.

    Four Indigenous children who went missing in the Colombian Amazon after surviving a plane crash 40 days ago have been found alive, Colombian President Gustavo Petro said on Friday. The small crash triggered a massive rescue operation for the four siblings.

  • Thursday, June 8th 2023 - 10:26 UTC

    Petro warns “soft coup” against him will not prevail

    Castillo was alone. Petro is not alone, the Colombian President stressed.

    Colombian President Gustavo Petro Wednesday said he could face the same fate as Peru's Pedro Castillo Terrones as Congress might try to impeach him out of office. “Once the reforms are overthrown, they intend to destroy me in the Commission of Accusations,” Petro argued while urging lawmakers not to betray “the will of the people”.

  • Wednesday, May 31st 2023 - 11:03 UTC

    Colombia returns to Unasur, Petro announces

    Former Colombian President Iván Duque had withdrawn from Unasur citing it only served the purposes of “Venezuela's dictatorship”

    Colombian President Gustavo Petro Tuesday announced in Brasilia the return of his country to the Union of South American Nations (Unasur). “I have requested that it be called Association of South American Nations to guarantee pluralism and permanence in time,” said Petro five years after then-President Ivan Duque left the organization claiming that it served the interests of the “dictatorship” of Venezuela.

  • Wednesday, May 31st 2023 - 10:50 UTC

    South American Presidents sign Brasilia Consensus

    Argentina's Alberto Fernández insisted that if “disagreements are strengthened, everything breaks down.”

    After the Summit of South American leaders in Brasilia, the 11 attending presidents reached a consensus on cooperation and integration in the region.

  • Tuesday, May 23rd 2023 - 11:08 UTC

    Colombia halts ceasefire with FARC dissidents after 4 murders

    “Recruiting and murdering children and adolescents from indigenous communities are not exactly gestures of goodwill to achieve peace,” Ombudsman Camargo said

    Colombian authorities Monday announced the unilateral suspension of the ceasefire with dissident Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), known as the Central General Staff (EMC-FARC), after the recruitment and murder of four children from the Murui indigenous community, it was reported in Bogota.