Gustavo Petro is the President of the Republic of Colombia "The interests of humanity are best served by cooperation, not a policy of antagonism," writes the President of the Republic of Colombia.

Since taking office in August 2022, Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro has pursued an ambitious agenda—with mixed results. Colombian President Gustavo Petro looks on before the 2024 Colombia ...

New York Times reporters waited more than eight hours to speak with President Gustavo Petro, who, as it turned out, had ...

President of Colombia Gustavo Petro joins the march and greets his followers as part of the 2024 International Workers Day on May 1, 2024 in Bogota, Colombia. President of Colombia Gustavo Petro joins ...

BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Chanting and waving flags, hundreds of supporters of Gustavo Petro, Colombia's first-ever left-wing president, surrounded the Supreme Court building last month. They were angry ...

The United States Department of the Treasury has slapped sanctions on Colombian President Gustavo Petro, his family and the South American country’s interior minister, Armando Benedetti. Friday’s ...

President Gustavo Petro of Colombia is taking a harder line against the National Liberation Army, or ELN, a leftist group experts call a powerful drug trafficker in Colombia and Venezuela.

Sign up for our newsletter about national security here. Last month, Donald Trump called Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, an “illegal drug leader.” That ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Two years in, Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s “Total Peace” initiative has ...