Who is Colombia's President Gustavo Petro, former Marxist guerrilla and country's first leftist leader?
A recent fight over between President Donald Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro has brought renewed attention to the ...
Quick Facts About The President of Colombia: Background, Family, and Climb to Power
Gustavo Petro, Colombia's president since 2022, participated in guerrilla warfare, had multiple marriages, and achieved ...
Trump’s Big Stick Strategy Will Make America Respected Again
Despite his best efforts at saber-rattling, ColombiaÂ’s socialist president Gustavo Petro bent the knee and agreed to take in ...
New York Sun6d
Trump Halts Visas, Imposes Tariffs and Sanctions After Colombian President Refuses Migrant Deportation Flights
President Petro announced Sunday morning that he would not accept any military aircraft returning Colombians to their home ...
El País in English3d
Uribe, Santos and the business elite: How Colombian leaders came together against Trump’s threats
Former presidents and ministers from the left and right, plus the financial elites, closed ranks around the Petro ...
New York Magazine6d
A Brief Trade War and Other Weekend Political News As It Happened
On Sunday night, the White House announced that Colombia had agreed to accept U.S. military deportation flights and Trump’s trade war measures would not be enacted after the country’s president, ...
Vance Defends Immigration Crackdown as Arrests Begin in Chicago
In a wide-ranging interview on Sunday, Vice President JD Vance defended a variety of plans set in motion by President Trump ...
US Congress will pass sanctions against countries who don't cooperate on deportation: House Speaker
Speaker Mike Johnson has warned that Congress is ready to pass sanctions against countries that do not fully cooperate with ...
The Diplomat3d
Can Marco Rubio Help Rebuild US Influence in Latin America – and Erode China’s?
While Rubio’s anti-China rhetoric aligns with Washington’s broader geopolitical goals, the tools at his disposal are ...
On This Day: WHO declares COVID-19 a public health emergency
World Health Organization officials declared the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak -- later to be dubbed COVID-19 -- a public health emergency of international concern.