BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The presidents of Colombia and Venezuela met on their border Thursday to sign an agreement designed to improve trade between the two countries and lift import duties on dozens of manufactured goods. The deal comes as relations between the two countries improve...
BOGOTA, Feb 17 (Reuters) – Colombia’s government on Friday presented a law to the country’s Congress to raise public spending in its budget this year by 25.4 trillion pesos ($5.11 billion) in a move to finance the social plans put forward by President Gustavo Petro. Most...
In June 2022, Gustavo Petro made his final campaign speech from behind a wall of bulletproof shields—an unusual precaution for a presidential frontrunner in Latin America, but normal protocol for a leftist candidate in Colombia. The fates of several of Petro’s predecessors show why:...
Argentina’s government said on Tuesday it was willing to grant citizenship to all Nicaraguan political opposition leaders stripped of their nationality by Daniel Ortega’s regime, including former vice-president Sergio Ramírez. “Argentina is in a position to give them...
Next year, a century will have passed since the moment that a football World Cup became necessary and inevitable. Uruguay arrived unheralded at the Paris Olympics of 1924, and cruised to the gold medal with a style and a swagger that astonished all those who saw them. That settled it:...
