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Colombia’s September CPI hit 5.18%, below 2023 but above forecasts, signaling steady economy and minimal overnight rate cuts by late 2025.

IMF projects Colombia’s GDP growth at 2.5% in 2025; inflation easing to 4.5%, but deficit hits 7.1% and debt peaks at 62.3% by 2027.

Petro’s New York rhetoric sparked sharp criticism in Colombia, with opponents accusing him of risking a vital strategic partnership for ideology.

Colombian opposition blasts Petro, accusing him of embarrassing the nation and harming vital diplomatic relations with reckless claims.

The Peso and stock market have surged, boosting overseas spending, but the $1.6 billion USD deficit hit a crushing month again.

“The international mafias could even be Gustavo Petro’s own interlocutors,” Tertsch stated, referencing alleged links between the government and criminal structures.

José Manuel Sierra Sabogal, alias Zarco Aldinever, second-in-command of ex-FARC group Segunda Marquetalia, was killed in an August ambush.

The US may offer limited aid in Colombia’s drug war, but local soldiers, civilians, and rights workers face daily violence from armed gangs.

Do the Colombian president's claim show a detachment from reality, or is he playing a joke on the public?

The decertification puts half a billion dollars of US security aid to Colombia at risk. Mafia & insurgent groups have flourished during the government of Gustavo Petro.