Gustavo Petro

Photo:Ovidio González - Presidency ​“Do not let Colombia be filled with darkness brought by the specters of death again”: President Petro Montería (Córdoba), June 5, 2026 I came to say goodbye in my land. I hope that this government is remembered at night, in the living rooms, in the rocking chairs, in the corridors, when the moon rises, when the sun goes down. And you have a good memory of what we did, you feel that Colombia was definitely able to change, and that we did the impossible so th…

Photo:Andrea Puentes - Presidency "The word equality is a principle of world progressivism, this is how the Republic of Colombia was created": President Petro. Media Torta from Bogotá, May 19, 2026

Photo:Joel González - Presidency ​​"Drug trafficking is trying to destabilize the elections, because in a troubled river, fishermen gain": President Petro.​​

Photo:Joel González - Presidency "We turn an alms of 80 thousand into a pension bonus of 230 thousand pesos per month": President Petro Cúcuta (Norte de Santander), May 21, 2026

Photo:Ovidio González - Presidency ​​"With the associations that exist it is due to the industrialization of fishing, in the hands of artisanal fishermen": President Petro Ciénaga (Magdalena), May 26, 2026 Fishing in Colombia is attacked for reasons that have to do with human beings, but not specifically local ones, and some of the effects were already evident here. What arrived here was an arctic front, even throwing ships onto the beaches, something that had never entered these seas and the…

Photo:Joel González - Presidency ​​​"The decision remains with you to mark the future of Colombia, whether along the flowering paths of life, or through the sad paths of death": President Petro Sincelejo (Sucre), May 27, 2026 We wanted to start like this, first, to show what was done. Some newspaper in this region, which I know a lot, including its background, said today that Petro did not comply. Well, here we can see the fundamental proof to demonstrate the degree of compliance, in other pl…

Photo:Ovidio González - Presidency “I did not come here to promise, but to deepen the paths to build a policy of life”: President Petro Cartagena (Bolívar), May 28, 2018 One could speak of hundreds of achievements. Someone made a list of a hundred and stayed at the beginning. Maybe it's time to make a list of a thousand. It would be very boring to read that, but I would like to review the fundamentals. What I call totem, a strange word. Totem comes from ancient cultures and civilizations and …

Photo:Joel González - Presidency "If the word with power has multitudes, this is how we change the world, we change Colombia and we change Barranquilla": President Petro.

Photo:Andrea Puentes - Presidency ​“I invite the citizens of Colombia to take care of the results table by table after the closing of the vote”: President Petro​. Photo:Ovidio González - Presidency

Photo:Joel González - Presidency "If voluntary eradication multiplies and there are long-term contracts, in 10 years we will stop new crops": President Petro Good evening, Colombians and Colombians. Today I am going to talk about the public presentation of the results in relation to the policy on coca leaf crops that this government has advanced. With data, satellite maps and UN verification, as they have been done since this mechanism existed, which allows with very high definition to tell ex…

Photo:Juan Diego Cano - Presidency ​​"Removing tolls progressively throughout Colombia is a progressive objective": President Petro.​

Photo:Ovidio González - Presidency ​“Life before greed, this must be the insignia of the game that represents a nation”: President Petro.

Photo: César Carrión - Presidency ​​"The respect of the FF MM for the people exalts democracy, which will be better and deeper in the years to come": President Petro Military Cadet School, Bogotá, June 5, 2026 Well, a special greeting to General Royer Gómez Herrera, commander of the National Army, his wife Patricia and their children Laura and Omar. To the officers of the military courses, Colonel Herbert Garzón Rey and Lieutenant Colonel Nolasco Espinal Mejía, promoted today to the rank of s…