Petro finds his flag: the popular consultation on labour rights returns him political oxygen for his last year of mandate

Several admirers and opponents agree in recent weeks that perhaps President Gustavo Petro’s most shrewd political move came in his third and penultimate act of government: his call to vote for a popular consultation to approve the labor reform that sank the Senate last March. He may be criticized for the time to do so (a year after the presidential elections), the tone he has used (his insults to the legislature), or even his military symbols by…

The Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, accused former chancellor Álvaro Leyva on Friday of contacting the National Liberation Army (ELN) in Venezuela, where the government and that guerrilla were negotiating peace, to see how to remove him from office. “Leyva also spoke to ELN and spoke to others in Caracas not to see how we make peace, but to see how he overthrows the president because he has oligarch rage,” Petro said in a speech in the munic…

Recently, the former chancellor asked Petro to “review his tenure” for his alleged drug addiction problems. President Gustavo Petro accused former chancellor Álvaro Leyva of contacting the ELN in Venezuela, where the government and that guerrilla were negotiating peace, to see how to remove him from office. “Leyva also spoke to ELN and talked to others in Caracas not to see how we make peace, but to see how he overthrows the president because he…