Bogota, Mar 1 (EFE).- Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Wednesday said the new maximum-security prison in El Salvador where 2,000 accused gang members were transferred last week is in fact a ...

Gustavo Petro will become Colombia’s first leftist leader, after winning the country’s presidential race on Sunday. The former guerrilla won by a slim margin with over 50% of the votes ...

Polls put the two candidates—former rebel member, leftist Gustavo Petro and the conservative outsider Rodolfo Hernández—neck-and-neck. Analysts tell TIME that despite Petro leading the May 29 ...

A recent spat publicly carried out this weekend over social media between President Donald Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro has brought renewed attention to the former Marxist guerrilla ...

Gustavo Petro, a former rebel and a longtime legislator, won Colombia’s presidential election on Sunday, galvanizing voters frustrated by decades of poverty and inequality under conservative ...

Former rebel Gustavo Petro is set to be Colombia's first leftist president after voters handed him a slim victory in Sunday's runoff election against Rodolfo Hernández, a political outsider and ...

BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Chanting and waving flags, hundreds of supporters of Gustavo Petro, Colombia's first-ever left-wing president, surrounded the Supreme Court building last month. They were ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro quickly reversed course about accepting flights of deported migrants from the US after President Trump threatened emergency tariffs of up to 50% on the South ...

Gustavo Petro, Colombia's president-elect, speaks during an election night rally following the runoff presidential election in Bogotá, Colombia, on June 19. (Andres Cardona/Bloomberg) We had no ...

A man walks near a campaign banner of presidential candidate Gustavo Petro and his running mate, Francia Marquez, ahead of weekend elections in Bogotá on June 13. The pair won the election.

By Megan Janetsky Long before Gustavo Petro emerged as the apparently victorious leftist candidate for president, he was part of the M-19, an urban guerrilla group that sought to seize power ...