Gustavo Petro

After finding refuge and building power in Venezuela, a decades-old rebel group has waged the worst violence in Colombia in a generation, setting off troubling regional tensions.

Gustavo Petro said that his government would provide loans to those who take up his offer to return home and enlist in one of its programs to start a business.

Electoral authorities in Colombia have ruled in favor of investigating financial misconduct allegations against the 2022 campaign that got President Gustavo Petro elected.

President Gustavo Petro announced his country will break diplomatic ties with Israel Thursday over its actions in Gaza. "If Palestine dies, humanity dies, and we are not going to let it die," he said.

Allies of Colombian President Gustavo Petro have been defeated by wide margins in municipal and provincial elections, in what analysts say is a sign of growing discontent with the country's first left-wing government.

COMMENTARY Gustavo Petro's disgraceful support of Hamas and Ron DeSantis' disgraceful demonization of Palestinians could stoke violence in this hemisphere.

COMMENTARY Refusing to condemn Hamas terrorism — and calling Israel "Nazis" — leaves Colombian President Gustavo Petro with little statesman credibility at home as well.

The son of Colombian President Gustavo Petro has acknowledged that his father's 2022 election campaign received money of dubious origin, according prosecutors investigating Nicolás Petro for alleged illicit enrichment and money laundering.

Nicolas Petro, 36, the son of Colombia's leftist president Gustavo Petro, has been charged with money laundering and illicit enrichment. Prosecutors said he took tens of thousands of dollar from drug traffickers to buy luxurious homes and expensive cars.

COMMENTARY Thanks to ideological arrogance, Colombian President Gustavo Petro risks fumbling the reforms he was elected to carry out, at home and abroad.

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó says he fled to Colombia because he faced arrest by the Maduro dictatorship — and then to Miami because he faced deportation.

Gustavo Petro and Nicolas Maduro have met on their border to sign an agreement designed to improve trade between both countries and lift import duties on dozens of manufactured goods.