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The latest news and top stories on Gustavo Petro, Colombia's President since 2022. He previously served as Mayor of Bogotá and as a Senator.
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Donald Trump
Trump says any country trafficking drugs into US could be attacked
In response to the threat, Colombia’s Petro says his nation destroys drug labs ‘without missiles’ and warns Trump not to ‘awake the Jaguar’.
3 Dec 2025 - 9:36AM
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China-Latin America relations
Xi Jinping pledges support for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro
25 Nov 2025 - 6:00AM
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Venezuela
Several international airlines cancel flights to Venezuela after US warning
24 Nov 2025 - 10:39AM
China-Latin America relations
Colombia pushes for talks – to include China – over US military action in region
Petro steps up rhetoric as biggest US aircraft carrier backs an anti-drug operation near Venezuela; the latest strikes face legal questions.
18 Nov 2025 - 3:54AM
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Americas and the Caribbean
7 children killed in air strike against Colombia rebel group, officials say
The minors were forcibly recruited and used as human shields by the Farc-EMC group, ombudswoman Iris Marin says.
16 Nov 2025 - 9:00AM
Americas and the Caribbean
US strikes on alleged drug boats in eastern Pacific kill 6
US defence secretary says two boats were destroyed as calls mounted for investigations into the US strikes.
11 Nov 2025 - 10:29AM
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Americas and the Caribbean
Rio raids, Venezuela crisis threaten to overshadow Brazil’s UN climate summit
Deadly police operations at home and regional fears of US military intervention abroad divert President Lula’s focus from one of his signature global issues.
6 Nov 2025 - 3:40PM
Americas and the Caribbean
Trump says not considering strikes within Venezuela, despite earlier threats
The US president had previously said ‘the land is going to be next’, after deadly attacks on alleged drug-carrying boats in the area.
1 Nov 2025 - 1:27AM
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Americas and the Caribbean
US sanctions Colombia president over drugs, amid escalating row with Trump
Gustavo Petro has accused the US president of carrying out ‘extrajudicial executions’ by striking alleged drug-trafficking vessels.
25 Oct 2025 - 6:19AM
Donald Trump
‘We’re just going to kill them’: Trump vows to escalate drug war to land targets
US president’s stark warning of moving beyond sea strikes comes amid a massive US military build-up in the Caribbean and tensions with Venezuela.
24 Oct 2025 - 3:22PM
United States
Colombia’s Petro accuses Trump of ‘extrajudicial executions’ in boat strikes
Fuelling a spat with Trump, Colombia’s president said the US military’s anti-drug campaign, which has killed dozens, violates international law.
24 Oct 2025 - 1:13PM
Americas and the Caribbean
US widens campaign on suspected drug boats with first lethal strikes in Pacific
Two new strikes, apparently carried out in international waters, come amid a war of words between Donald Trump and Colombia’s president.
23 Oct 2025 - 1:51PM
Americas and the Caribbean
Air strikes and insults: Trump’s feud with Colombia threatens key alliance
With Colombia recalling its ambassador, the Trump-Petro feud marks a new low in relations between Bogota and Washington.
21 Oct 2025 - 3:28PM
Americas and the Caribbean
Colombia recalls ambassador to US as Trump-Petro feud intensifies
Trump’s rhetoric and tariff threats mark a new low in US-Colombia relations, which the US leader alleges are complicit in the drug trade.
20 Oct 2025 - 11:10PM
Colombia
Trump threatens Colombia with tariffs and slashes aid, calls Petro a ‘drug leader’
Trump warned that the US would ‘close up’ Colombia’s drug operations, just as Petro condemned a US strike as ‘murder’.
20 Oct 2025 - 1:35PM
United States
US strike in Caribbean kills Colombian fisherman, stoking sovereignty row
President Gustavo Petro demanded answers from Washington over the September attack that left Alejandro Carranza dead.
19 Oct 2025 - 11:57AM
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Americas and the Caribbean
US strikes on boats in Caribbean fuel speculation over missing fishermen
Caribbean tensions rise as Venezuela accuses the US of killing innocent people in anti-drug operations.
17 Oct 2025 - 2:52PM
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Americas and the Caribbean
US strike on boat in Caribbean may have killed Colombians, Petro says
Colombian president writes that a ‘new front in the war has opened’ in the Caribbean, prompting the White House to demand a public retraction.
9 Oct 2025 - 10:15AM
Israel-Gaza war
Israel blocks all Gaza flotilla ships, vows to deport activists
Organisers said the interception was ‘illegal’, claiming the ships were in international waters while carrying vital aid to the enclave.
2 Oct 2025 - 8:05PM
Colombia
Colombia’s Petro fires own Beijing embassy team for ‘sabotaging’ China outreach
Purge follows Bogota’s pivot to China and President Petro’s open tensions with Donald Trump over immigration, Gaza.
1 Oct 2025 - 3:02AM
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Americas and the Caribbean
Colombia unveils first combat rifle amid diplomatic rift with US, Israel
Colombian President Petro has stopped buying arms from the US and is looking to replace weapons once supplied by former military ally Israel.
30 Sep 2025 - 11:52AM
Americas and the Caribbean
US revokes Colombian president’s visa after he calls soldiers to ‘disobey Trump’
The US State Department called Gustavo Petro’s actions at a pro-Palestinian street protest in New York ‘reckless and incendiary’.
27 Sep 2025 - 1:01PM
UAE
Letters
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A win-win model for Hong Kong and Dubai
Readers discuss synergy between two financial hubs, national mourning in Colombia, and the human cost of conflict.
16 Aug 2025 - 11:30AM
Americas and the Caribbean
Colombian presidential hopeful dies 2 months after shooting
Miguel Uribe, from the right-wing opposition, was shot in Bogotá on June 7 while giving a speech at a rally, in an attack that shocked the nation.
11 Aug 2025 - 8:30PM
Sudan
Sudan claims downing of Emirati plane carrying Colombian mercenaries
The attack, which left at least 40 dead, is the latest in a series of accusations by Sudan’s military that the UAE is arming its paramilitary rivals.
9 Aug 2025 - 5:09PM
Americas and the Caribbean
Colombia police capture alleged mastermind in attack on presidential candidate
The conservative senator is still in intensive care after he was struck from behind while giving a speech in a Bogota park.
6 Jul 2025 - 1:50AM
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