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It has been a busy week for President Petro with visits to Santiago, Chile and Caracas, Venezuela.

The hope is that Colombia can start to resemble the sum of its parts which would allow the reduction of poverty and the flourishing of a country with incredible potential.

199 social leaders had been killed so far this year from January to early December.

Fedenaga estimates around 700,000 cattle a year are smuggled, either live or as meat, into Colombia.

The two discussed antinarcotics, Venezuelan & Cuban relations, the Peace Process, immigration, and human rights.

Petro warned that the main suspects were the Dagoberto Ramos Mobile Column, an important former FARC front

Petro's initiative depends on cooperation and good faith from myriad criminal groups

It has, thus far, been a week of general weakness in the equity market and a Peso that has been led around by the nose, by global events.

A left-wing President appointing a conservative party senator to head foreign relations sends a strong message to Colombians & foreign governments.

Gustavo Petro, a former guerrilla fighter, has pledged a clean break with what he sees as the confrontational, violent policies of his predecessor.