Petro Strengthens Its Support for Public University Students for Elections

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The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, has tightened the accelerator in recent weeks to show results in his higher education policy. In mid-December, his government carried out a legislative reform that will increase the resources of public universities. A few days later, he suspended the funding of scholarship credits for postgraduate studies abroad granted by the Colfuturo foundation and promised to replace it with a more equitable system o…