On 20 July 2026, in the working class district of Ciudad Bolívar, in southern Bogotá, President Gustavo Petro delivered the final public speech of his term, and turned it into something other than an accounting of his record. In ninety minutes he handed over three objects heavy with history, repeated an electoral fraud accusation that … CONTINUE READING →
On the seventh of July two thousand and twenty-six, Colombia’s Ministry of Defence had everything ready for the empalme, the orderly handover of information between the outgoing and incoming governments, a mechanism the law requires after every change of president. Printed documents, technical teams convened, a table arranged with two symmetrical sides. On the outgoing … CONTINUE READING →
On 7 July, Colombia’s president-elect publicly asked the Armed Forces to disobey Gustavo Petro should his orders contradict the Constitution. Ten days earlier, a data-journalism alliance made up of Cuestión Pública, Vorágine, Rutas del Conflicto, El Veinte and the Centro Latinoamericano de Investigación Periodística had revealed that nearly 17,000 public officials, including active-duty police and … CONTINUE READING →