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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.

FARC dissidents toppled an electricity pylon near Medellín, an act the governor called a terrorist attack on Antioquia.

"The problem is that after years of corruption and mismanagement, the Colombian bank balance isn't in any shape to write the checks needed to move the inequality needle."

One problem, of course, is money; Colombia doesn't have enough of it.