News about Gustavo Petro

In 2014 Tyler Schwab started the non-profit Libertas International, which has gone on to save more than 3,000 girls from tourist pedophiles in Colombia. He has made it his mission to save the minors from horrible conditions, at the hands of many American tourists. 'Many of these people are professional law enforcement, teachers, taxi drivers, pharmacists, ex-military, bankers, etc. They have no criminal background here in the U.S., but when they travel, they turn into the worst kind of monsters who inflict true horror on vulnerable kids around the world,' Schwab said.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro revealed that he will break diplomatic relations with Israel due to its actions in the Gaza Strip. The left-wing leader accused the Israeli government of committing 'genocide' in its war against Hamas during a speech following an International Worker's Day march in Bogotá on Wednesday. 'Tomorrow diplomatic relations with the State of Israel will be broken for having a government, for having a genocidal president,' Petro said. 'If Palestine dies, humanity dies and we are not going to let it die.'

Gustavo Petro, the country's first leftist president, has faced seething unrest and massive street protests in recent days against his economic and social reforms. He is also facing renewed fighting in a decades-long insurgency in the south-west of the country against the far-left rebel group FARC-EMC. In a brief statement on Tuesday he announced hundreds of thousands of bullets, thousands of grenades and 37 anti-tank missiles have disappeared from a military base in the center of the country and another near the Caribbean coast. 'The only way to explain these missing items is that there are networks made up of people within the armed forces who are involved in the illegal arms trade.'

Nine soldiers were killed after their army helicopter crashed in a rural town in northern Colombia department of Bolívar on Monday. The Colombia military said in a statement the helicopter was transporting supplies to troops in the  municipality of Santa Rosa del Sur. The area has been recently engulfed by an ongoing war between the National Liberation Army guerrilla group and Gulf Clan drug cartel.

This is the moment residents ziplined across a river nearly five years after a storm knocked down a wooden pedestrian that links two cities in north-central Colombia. A man could be seen ziplining over the Chicamocha River while a child sat around his lap. A young girl dressed in her school uniform was spotted struggling with the zipline.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro is calling on residents to escape Bogotá this weekend as the reservoirs that have been severely impacted by a drought are struggling to supply the capital city. The left-wing leader declared Friday a national civic day, granting government workers the day off and asking private enterprises to consider doing the same so that the water levels in the reservoirs. 'It's not so people don't drink water, because then we would die,' Petro said during a press conference Thursday. 'But it's so we drink it in a different place, where there is no hydrological stress.'

When a British warship took the San Jose to the bottom of the Caribbean in 1708, it was loaded with gold, silver, and emeralds valued today at $17 billion. Scientists in Colombia are just days away from restoring the first artefacts recovered after the wreck was first discovered under 2,000 feet of water in 2015. Spain, Colombia, Bolivia, and a US search firm are among those claiming the cargo, but lhena Caicedo of the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History said the wrangling is on hold as the mission continues. We aren't worried about the treasure,' he said, 'We're thinking about how to find the site's historical and archeological information.'

A Colombian soldier survived a gun war with the country's most deadly cartel thanks to his iPhone case catching a bullet rather than him. When he was fired on Friday, Army Special Forces Unit commander Captain Javier Leal had his cell phone inside a pocket. 'God is with me, and this is not going to be like this,' he said. 'We're going to come back stronger.' Unfortunately, not all his troops were as fortunate as four other soldiers were killed in the war.

This is the time when Colombian President Gustavo Petro's 15-year-old daughter cried out of a World Cup qualifying game in tears as a sold-out crowd called for his dismissal. Antonella Petro was seen by a fan as they walked out of their section at Estadio Metropolitano Melendez in Barranquilla on Thursday night. The crowd erupted in shouting "Fuera Petro" (Fire Petro) at the president's teenage daughter, which prevented her from remaining until the end of Colombia's 2-1 victory over Brazil.

During a skirmish with the British in 1708, the Spanish galleon San Jose sank off the coast of Cartagena, Colombia. Treasures weighing up to $20 billion in today's money were on board, as well as 600 sailors, all but 11 of whom died with the ship. A team of navy divers had uncovered the legendary ship in nearly 3,100 of water in 2015, and another team returned jaw-dropping photos of its beautifully preserved cargo last year. The Colombian government has announced that it will be increased before President Gustavo Petro Petro's term of office expires in 2026.

Luis Diaz expressed appreciation to his abducted father as he scored his last gasp equalizer against Luton Town with a letter from his captive parent. Diaz, 26, pulled the torso of his Liverpool shirt to reveal a black letter inscribed on his white undergarment, titled 'Libertad papa.' It's a sad reminder that Luis Manuel 'Freedom For My Dad' is still missing.

Luis Diaz's mother took to social media to share an emotional birthday card for their two-year-old daughter. The article was published in the midst of Diaz's father's disappearance along with his wife in Barrancas near the Venezuelan border last Saturday. His mother was rescued just hours later and returned to his family, but his father remains in the custody of ELN, with police continuing to look for Luis Manuel.

NATALIA PENZA: Colombians are demanding the postponement of their country's upcoming World Cup qualifier match against Brazil unless Liverpool player Luis Diaz's captors release him. On Friday night, Colombia's Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Roy Barreras, threw his weight behind the London campaign, saying that the November 17 match should not take place unless Luis Manuel Diaz is a free man by that time. Brazil star Romario called a press conference and threatened to leave the national team until the 1994 World Cup, when kidnapping snatched his father and demanded $7 million (£5.6 million) for his freedom.

After being identified as a family member of the Liverpool player, Colombian terrorist group Ejercito de Liberacion Nacional (ELN) and Luis Diaz's father, his kidnappers are expected to be released by his kidnappers, according to a statement. The left-wing guerrilla group abducted Diaz's father, Luis Manuel Diaz, and his mother, Cilenis Marulanda, at gun-point on Saturday. According to local reports, the two were kidnapped from Barrancas, Colombia, before escaping the scene.

MIKE KEEGAN'S SPECIAL REPORT It is a brazen, shocking kidnap that has shocked the world. Luis Diaz, the brilliant Colombian forward and darling of the Kop, was sleeping in slumber last Saturday night as he was recovering from Liverpool's game against Nottingham Forest. As they stopped to pick up watermelons at a gas station, the 26-year-old discovered from home that his parents had been shot and bundled on to stolen motorcycles. They were in their Kia car - red, of course - at 5.10 p.m. local time when the gang struck.

President Gustavo Petro of Colombia said that the kidnappers of Liverpool star Luis Diaz's father are still in jail, and that his situation is becoming "very dangerous." Luis Manuel Diaz' kidnay was identified by the left-wing ELN rebel group, which was branded a terrorist group by the US government and EU yesterday. According to Colombian media, a female guerrilla fighter identified only by her alias of Patricia, who leads an ELN regional unit named the Northern War Front orchestrated the era.

The Argentine government has condemned Israel's bombing of Gaza Strip refugee camp, where at least 47 people were killed on Tuesday. The foreign ministry probed the Jabalya camp on Wednesday, which the Israeli government reported was a success for top Hamas commander Ibrahim Biari. According to reports, Israeli military jets launched a second bombing on Wednesday, taking out Hamas militants and burning a command center. The precise number of casualties has not been reported.

Luis Diaz, the Liverpool player, has been left out of the team's squad for their Nottingham Forest match against Anfield. Following the news that Diaz's parents were kidnapped in Colombia, the star player was left out of the team. In the city of Barrancas, Colombia, gunmen stopped his parents.

Migrants who fled a stretch of rainforest en route to the United States have created lucrative business opportunities for entrepreneurs seeking to cash in on the crisis. Over 360,000 people have crossed through a region from Colombia to Panama, the 'Darien Gap', bringing a huge new client base to a region that has long been predicted for eternal poverty. Migrants can pay for a boat ride into the rainforest for $40; guides for the ride northwards $170; and families can enjoy a plate of chicken and rice at the end of a long day's hike, but not without forking over $180. Guides leading the trek earn more than $800 a month, nearly four times more than the average Colombian monthly income.

Pablo Escobar, a Colombian drug lord, has been chastised for a mural in France. At Le Populo, a restaurant in Marseilles, the artwork in question depicts the smiling founder of the defunct Medelln Cartel giving a hand salute on a wall. On a recent visit to the restaurant, Andrea Petro, Colombian President Gustavo Petro's daughter, slammed the mural's existence.

According to documents submitted in court by the Attorney General's Office on Monday, Colombian President Nicolás Petro's son is expected to face money laundering and illicit enrichment. Nicolás Petro was arrested July 31 and later released from jail on strict conditions for accepting contributions for his father's campaign ahead of the 2022 elections. The younger Petro told the investigators that he obtained money from Samuel 'The Marlboro Man' Santander, a former politician who served 18 years in the United States for drug trafficking; Alfonso 'Turco' Hilsaca, a Cartagena businessman connected to Los Rastrojos, a drug cartel and paramilitary group; and scar Camacho, a well-known businessman from Ccuta

A recent United Nations survey shows that cocaine production rose by 26% in 2022 in Colombia. The rise to 1915.8 tons, eclipsing a 20-year high, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The report also showed that coca crop plantings accounted for 58,000 acres in 2022, an increase from the previous year's 13 percent.

After the kingpin's threats to farmers, deforestation rates dropped by 76 percent in a year, the Amazon rainforest in Colombia seems to have been saved by a cocaine warlord. However, although it seems that Ivan Mordisco is a catalyst for real change, experts familiar with the situation insist that this is exactly how he comes across. Mordisco is the country's third-largest illicit armed group, occupying Colombia's most populated area. He has demonstrated that his urgent demands are being considered seriously by farmers hacking away at trees. He has a network of more than 3,000 troops who are said to strong-arm anyone who would want to defy the armed forces's laws. Mordisco's control has long sparked suspicion, sparking fears that if the leftist government declines Mordisco's demands, he'll act on threats that have already exist to start the chainsaws once more.

President Gustavo Petro of Colombia was arrested on suspicion of money laundering and unlawful enrichment on Saturday. Nicolás Petro (right circled), a politician in Atlantico province, has denied charges that he borrowed money from drug dealers who were attempting to be included in the president's peace initiative to bring an end to civil strife. Daysuris Vasquez, the former wife of Nicolás Petro (left next to him), was also arrested on suspicion of money laundering and personal data theft. She accused the younger Petro of accepting the donations without his father's acknowledgement in late 2021 and early 2022