On August 7th, in a sports arena in Cali rather than in Bogotá, Abelardo de la Espriella was sworn in as president of Colombia for the 2026-2030 term, with King Felipe VI and at least eight Latin American heads of state as witnesses to a ceremony the new Government described as a gesture of decentralisation. … CONTINUE READING →
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 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 →