Petro “Loses the Street” as National Strike Stalls with Rising Discontent | The City Paper Bogotá

Petro “Loses the Street” as National Strike stalls with rising discontent | The City Paper Bogotá

In what was meant to be a show of force in support of President Gustavo Petro’s embattled reform agenda, Colombia’s latest nationwide strike fell strikingly flat this week, exposing the President’s waning political capital and deepening public dissatisfaction with his leadership. For weeks, Petro’s government, alongside the country’s most powerful trade unions, called for mass mobilizations to coincide with the launch of a proposed popular consu…