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Gustavo Petro
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Gender | Male |
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Age | 64 |
Date of birth | April 19,1960 |
Zodiac sign | Aries |
Born | Cienaga De Oro |
Colombia | |
Full name | Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego |
Spouse | Verónica Alcocer García |
Party | Colombia Humana |
Children | Antonella Sofia |
Andrea Petro | |
Nicholas Petro | |
Sofía Petro | |
Antonella Petro | |
Andrés Petro | |
Nicolás Alcocer Petro | |
Nicolás Petro Burgos | |
Nationality | Colombian |
Education | Universidad Externado de Colombia |
Pontifical Javierian University | |
Movies/Shows | Pizarro |
Debate presidencial 2018 | |
Previous position | Member of the Senate of Colombia (2018–2022) |
Position | President of Colombia since 2022 |
Presidential term | August 7, 2022 – |
Parents | Clara Nubia Urrego |
Gustavo Petro Sierra | |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 412541 |
Gustavo Petro Life story
Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego ODB ODSC ODIC is a Colombian economist, politician, and former member of the M19 armed guerrilla movement, who is the current president of Colombia since 2022.
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... It all comes amid ongoing peace negotiations between the Colombian government led by President Gustavo Petro and the ELN...
Footballer Díaz's father 'kidnapped by rebels'
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... Previous attempts at reaching a peace deal with the ELN have failed but as part of President Gustavo Petro s strategy for " total peace" his government restarted talks with the guerrilla group...
Bolivia severs diplomatic ties with Israel over Gaza war
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... Colombian President Gustavo Petro called for Israel s ambassador to leave the country before stepping back the comments...
Colombian artist Fernando Botero dies aged 91
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... President Gustavo Petro called him " the painter of our traditions and defects, the painter of our virtues"...
Colombia cocaine: Cultivation reaches record high
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... President Gustavo Petro on Saturday appealed to his regional counterparts to turn away from a militarised approach to fighting drug use and instead see it as a public health issue...
Amazon nations fall short of agreed goal to end deforestation
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... Colombia s President, Gustavo Petro, for example, wants other countries to match his pledge to ban new oil exploration, while Brazil is considering exploring new areas at the mouth of the Amazon river...
How 4 children survived 40 days in hostile Colombian jungle
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... Over the next six weeks the children battled the elements - and the odds - in what Colombia s President Gustavo Petro called " an example of total survival which will remain in history"...
Children reunited with family after surviving 40 days in Amazon
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... Colombia s Defence Minister Ivan Velasquez, who visited them in the hospital with President Gustavo Petro on Saturday, praised Lesly for taking care of her younger siblings...
Colombia cocaine: Cultivation reaches record high
By Vanessa BuschschlüterBBC News
The area planted with coca bushes in Colombia reached a record high Last Year , an annual report to the UN says.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said that potential coca production had risen by 24% since 2021.
Coca leaves are The Key ingredient in cocaine and Colombia has long been The Top producer of The Illegal drug.
The area planted with coca bushes rose by 13%, and the biggest increase was recorded in Colombia's border areas.
Almost two-thirds of the coca crops are found in the provinces of Nariño and Putumayo, which border Ecuador, and in Norte de Santander, on the Venezuelan border.
There has been a 77% rise in in coca cultivation in Putumayo, which shares a border with Peru and Ecuador.
Candice Welsch, UNODC's regional director, said that it was " worrying that each year there is an increase in coca crops in the country".
Colombian Justice Minister Néstor Osuna said that his country was " flattening the curve" and that the rate of increase was much lower than in 2021.
The UNODC's Leonardo Correa however warned that there had been a sharp rise in potential coca production in 2022.
" The crops that were young Last Year have now reached maturity and are now productive. In other words, the rate of growth in hectares is decreasing. But the rate of cocaine production is increasing, " He Said .
Both the size of the area planted with coca in Colombia and the potential coca production are at their highest since the UN began monitoring in 2001.
Colombia is The Top coca cultivator in The World , producing 60% of The World 's cocaine, followed by Peru and Bolivia.
President Gustavo Petro on Saturday appealed to his regional counterparts to turn away from a militarised approach to fighting drug use and instead see it as a Public Health issue.
" It is time to rebuild hope and not repeat the bloody and ferocious wars, the ill-named 'war on drugs', viewing drugs as a military problem and not as a health problem for society, " He Said at the Latin American and Caribbean Conference on Drugs in Cali.
His Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador said it was key to " fight first and foremost against poverty and inequality, and to offer work and good salaries".
He Said growers needed to be convinced " to switch from sowing marijuana, poppies and coca to planting beans, corn, cocoa and fruit trees".
Mexico is The Base for some of The Most powerful transnational drug cartels that control trafficking routes from South America to the United States and Europe.
It also produces large amounts of heroin, cannabis, methamphetamine and synthetic opioids such as fentanyl.
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com