Colombia ile ilgili hikayeler

• Petro vs Trump: Colombia has walked back from the brink of a damaging trade war with the United States, reaching an agreement on accepting deported migrants being returned on military planes, after a flurry of threats from President Donald Trump that included steep tariffs. What happened? The feud began early Sunday over the US miliary flights carrying deportees to Colombia. Petro blocked the planes from landing, accusing the US of treating Colombian migrants like...Devamını Oku

27 Oca 2025

• Colombia's drug violence: Following the breakdown of a truce between rival fractions, drug-related violence broke out and 60 people have been killed. Important note: The Ombudsman's Office said the latest violence involved the National Liberation Army (ELN)—the largest armed group still active in Colombia—and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), which signed a peace treaty with the state in 2016.

20 Oca 2025

• Colombia's finance minister resigns: Colombia’s finance minister Ricardo Bonilla, a long-term ally of leftist President Gustavo Petro, has stepped down amid a widening corruption scandal that is threatening to derail the leftist government’s reform agenda. The quote: Earlier, Petro said of Bonilla in a post on X: “I expect his resignation, not because I think he is guilty, but because they want to tear him apart for being loyal to the government program.”

09 Ara 2024

• The two presidents: The US government has officially recognized Edmundo González Urrutia as Venezuela's "president-elect," months after Nicolás Maduro claimed victory in the disputed July election. Backstage: González fled to exile in Spain earlier this month, later telling reporters that he had been coerced into signing a letter recognizing Maduro as the winner of the disputed election as a condition for letting him leave Venezuela. A step back: Earlier on Tu...Devamını Oku

25 Kas 2024

• In the Netherlands, a new four-party coalition government took office with Mark Rutte as prime minister. • In Hungary, Viktor Orbán was elected prime minister for the fourth time with 57% of the vote. • In Serbia, President Aleksandar Vučić won the presidential elections for the second time. Vučić became the first person to be elected president of the country twice. • Emmanuel Macron , the candidate of the Republican March Party, won the presidential elections in...Devamını Oku

29 Ara 2022

• Gustavo Petro , a former rebel and a longtime senator, won Colombia's presidential elections, becoming the first leftist president of Latin America's third largest nation. Petro received slightly more than 50% of the vote, defeating his opponent Rodolfo Hernández, a real estate tycoon who got just over 47%.

21 Haz 2022