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A $1 billion pledge follows a year of OFAC sanctions, a revoked visa, and a call from the former president for US troops to disobey their president.

Foreign exchange from travel reached $34.43 billion USD in 2025, and tourism now supplies 5.7 of every 10 services-export dollars.

Petro leaves Colombia with lower poverty, broader political representation and stronger labor protections, but also unfinished reforms, failed peace efforts and corruption scandals.

This is what Colombia's first far-right government will look like. Traditional conservatives, regional political clans, technocrats and newcomers make up the team that will govern alongside De la Espriella.

Colombia’s incoming administration faces a currency challenge as the peso’s strength pressures exporters, tourism and investment.

The Pacto Histórico is the largest congressional bloc, with 26 Senate seats and 43 seats in the House of Representatives, but no party holds a majority, making coalition-building essential.

Businessmen say they paid over $600 million COP for ministry contracts that never came; Petro says they “gave money like fools.”

A political outsider won by less than a point—now he must govern with four seats, a suspended fiscal rule, and a spreading conflict.

Caracol’s Ricardo Calderón details how each recorded promise to the Clan del Golfo matched what the Petro government then did.

Weeks before the government leaves office, families given plots in public ceremonies say they still lack the deeds proving ownership.