Updated: Colombia elects former guerrilla Petro as first leftist president
Updated: 12.25pm (AEST)Bogata/Bucaramanga, Colombia Reuters Leftist Gustavo Petro, a former member of the M-19 guerrilla movement who has vowed profound social and economic change, won Colombia’s presidency on Sunday, the first progressive to do so in the country’s history. Petro beat construction magnate Rodolfo Hernandez with an unexpectedly wide margin of some 719,975 votes. The […]
FARC dissidents responsible for bombing that killed two children, says Colombia’s Duque
Bogota, ColombiaReuters Colombian President Ivan Duque on Monday accused former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) who reject a peace deal of setting off explosives at a police station which killed two children and injured 39 others in Bogota. The Saturday night attack was the worst in the capital since another rebel […]
POSTCARDS: HOW BOGOTA’S SOLAR-POWERED GONDOLA IS GIVING SLUM DWELLERS A LIFT
ANASTASIA MOLONEY, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Colombia…