At 17 years old, Petro joined the guerrilla group 19th of April Movement (M-19). Seventeen years later it evolved into the M-19 Democratic Alliance, a political party. Petro also served as a councilman in Zipaquirá. He was arrested in 1985 and tortured by …

5 days ago · Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s 34th president and first left-wing leader in decades, has transformed from a curious student to a revolutionary icon. ... Known for his analytical mind, young Petro was ...

5 days ago · Gustavo Petro (born April 19, 1960, Ciénaga de Oro, Colombia) is a Colombian politician and former member of the Marxist guerrilla group 19th of April Movement (M-19) who in 2022 became the first leftist to serve as the president of Colombia.

5 days ago · Gustavo Petro enjoys reading French authors. ... M-19, when he was young. It was not only the ELN that was negotiating with Petro, but also the 33rd Front of the FARC dissidents, who have been attacked. The irony is not lost on Elizabeth Dickinson, senior analyst for Colombia at the International Crisis Group, an independent organization that ...

6 days ago · Mr Petro is the first former guerrilla fighter to hold the country's highest office. He was a member of the M-19 movement, a left-wing guerrilla group that demobilised in the late 1980s.

Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡusˈtaβo fɾanˈsisko ˈpetɾo uˈreɣo]; born 19 April 1960) is a Colombian politician who is the President of Colombia since 2022. Petro was a Senator from 2018 until 2022. He was senator before from 2006 until 2010. He was mayor of Bogotá from 2012 until 2015. From 1991 until 1994 and …

Jun 24, 2022 · When Gustavo Petro joined Colombia’s M-19 guerrilla movement in the late 1970s, he assumed the nom de guerre Aureliano in homage to Colonel Aureliano Buendía, a character in Gabriel García...

Jun 19, 2022 · Before he was a politician, Gustavo Petro was part of an urban guerrilla group. Petro belonged to M-19, born in 1970 as a response to alleged fraud in that year’s presidential elections. It...

Jun 20, 2022 · A self-styled "revolutionary" warrior for the marginalized -- black and Indigenous people, the poor and the young -- Petro promises to address hunger and inequality.

Apr 5, 2018 · A month before the siege, in October 1985, the national army detained a young militant named Gustavo Petro—who was not part of the raid—and tortured him for days at a cavalry school. After...