Left-wing candidate Gustavo Petro faces a runoff against a far-right populist, Rodolfo Hernández, for Colombia’s presidency. Predictably, the traditional establishment is lining up to support his self-styled “antiestablishment” opponent.
Colombia’s Supreme Court has placed former right-wing president Álvaro Uribe under house arrest on charges of manipulating witness testimony. Whatever happens to Uribe next, this will be a watershed moment for Colombian politics.
The Colombian government promised to invest in rural areas as part of the country's peace process. But the elite-friendly projects it's pushing are undermining the livelihoods of local residents — and threatening the peace process itself.
With peace on the horizon, the Colombian left’s future seems hopeful, but daunting challenges confront it.
Colombia’s new leftist president, Gustavo Petro, took office Sunday. His government will face massive challenges in carrying out its promised progressive agenda — but success could help spark similar left insurgents throughout Latin America.
US intervention in Venezuela wouldn't just be a catastrophe for that country — it would be a disaster for neighboring Colombia too.
The benefits of peace between FARC and the Colombian government will not be widely felt.
Recently elected president Gustavo Petro's victory was a milestone not only for Colombia but for all of Latin America. With it, a new progressive wave has washed across the region.
The greatest threat to Colombia's peace deal doesn't come from the Left, but from right-wing paramilitaries.
Colombia's peace deal is being threatened by a surge of right-wing violence.
In Colombia and around the world, right-wing paramilitaries and traffickers have adopted a populist feint to win over the communities they terrorize.
Despite violence and intimidation, Colombia’s teachers have been a bulwark for workers’ rights.
Colombia’s peace deal is backed by elite interests — but it will also open up political space for the Left.
Leftist candidate Gustavo Petro's success shows that whatever happens in Colombia's elections today, change has come to the country.
Colombia’s leftist president, Gustavo Petro, has plainly declared the war on drugs a bloody failure.
In the Colombian city of Barrancabermeja, a century of violence has disintegrated working-class power.
With Cold War divisions once again rising to the fore, the US is returning to its old ways in Latin America: trying to exert influence in its “backyard” to enlist the region in the ongoing project of US global domination.
The Colombian right has done everything in its power to undermine Gustavo Petro. That hasn’t stopped the nation’s first leftist president from achieving ambitious reforms for Colombia’s poor and working class.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke with Jacobin following her recent trip to Latin America and on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the coup in Chile. She discussed the crimes of US intervention and the struggles for justice and democracy across the Americas.