Colombia’s Risk Premium Soars as Finance Minister Exits

Colombia’s Risk Premium Soars as Finance Minister Exits

Colombia’s government confirmed on March 18, 2025, that Finance Minister Diego Guevara resigned after three months, triggering a sharp rise in the country’s risk premium. The five-year Credit Default Swap (CDS), a key measure of investor trust in a nation’s debt repayment ability, jumped 24 basis points to 225, hitting its highest level since November […]

In the last three months, 13 ministers have changed, and about a year after the next elections, he has failed to implement many of the promised reforms.

Colombia Spirals Toward ‘Failed State’ Under Exploding Cartel Violence: Experts

Drug cartels are tightening their grip on Colombia amid failed peace initiatives, economic stagnation, and forced recruitment into terrorist groups, say experts. Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s “total peace” initiative aimed to enforce a 2016 peace accord struck between the former Santos administration and the decades-old terrorist group the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). In 2022, Petro’s expansion of the law aimed to “carry …

Colombia lived for more than 100 years searching the way to overthrow the wall of the 1886 Constitution that kept the country under the permanent declaratory state of siege. It was a situation of exceptionality that closed democratic spaces, pruned political leaderships, withered civil society, was fertile ground for violence and gave excuses to illegal armed groups to raise the flags of insurrection before an authoritarian regime incapable of c…

Colombian Interior Minister Armando Benedetti reported this Friday that the reforms proposed by President Gustavo Petro and supported by the Colombian people will be part of the debate and vote in the Senate at the beginning of April. READ ALSO: In Keys: Popular Consultation on Social Reforms in Colombia Should they be overcome in that instance, between May and August they will be submitted to the polls, the Colombian government official said. "…

This indicator, which reflects investors' perception of risk over a nation's ability to pay, rose by 24 basis points