This month’s CELAC-EU Summit failed to produce a response to the ongoing U.S. terror strikes and extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean Sea and in the Pacific. However, the peoples of the Caribbean and Latin America are raising their collective voice in opposition. Social movements, unions and peoples from around the region gathered in Colombia’s coastal […]
President of Colombia Gustavo Petro addresses the Rally for Peace and Democracy in Cali. June 11, 2025. Colombian President Gustavo Petro has denounced a plot aimed at ousting him and suggested a possible connection to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio. In a speech on Wednesday, Petro assured that he has information that would implicate
The United Socialist Party of Venezuela’s (PSUV) Vice President of International Affairs, Rander Peña, is accusing Colombia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gilberto Murillo, of being on the take. His paymaster? Not Bogotá but the U.S. State Department and its policy objectives in the region. Meanwhile, former right-wing Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos is said to
Two years into his term, Colombian President Gustavo Petro has been fighting a battle against maneuvers by the National Electoral Council, which he describes as an attempted coup. For weeks, the center-left leader has denounced an investigation by the Council into alleged campaign fundraising irregularities, claiming it is a political move aimed at removing him
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