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Gustavo Petro
Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego is a Colombian politician and economist who served as the 35th president of Colombia from 2022 to 2026. He founded and leads the political party Historic Pact (PH) and is considered the first, and so far only, left-wing president in the recent history of Colombia.
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politics · President of Colombia from 2022 to 2026 · politician · economist · writer · partisan · environmentalist · mayor · also Gustavo Petro, Gustavo Petro Urrego, Petro, Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego
Born 19 April 1960 · Q704022
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2026· 36 entries
“In the end, if God exists, and hopefully he does, that has no forgiveness.”
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Infobae: Gustavo Petro cambia su estrategia en X: cerrará respuestas y hará trinos más espaciados
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Infobae: Gustavo Petro acompañó las exequias de dos de las trillizas Saavedra, que murieron con sus padres en Cali tras el sismo: así fue el acto
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Infobae: Andrés Forero dijo que Gustavo Petro “miente” por el buque hospital Benkos Biohó: “Son unos irresponsables”
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Infobae: Gabriela Muñoz se refirió a su esquema de seguridad de la UNP y rechazó rumores de una relación con Gustavo Petro: “Me redujeron a la condición de ‘moza’”
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NTN24: "Limosnas": Gustavo Petro crítica multimillonario aporte de empresarios colombianos para atender la tragedia
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Publimetro Colombia: Gustavo Petro habría visto a su novia poniéndole ‘cachos’ justo el día que salió de la Presidencia; esto se sabe
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Nuevo Mundo Israelita: Gustavo Petro y el huevo de la serpiente
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Infobae: Políticos de izquierda reaccionaron a la declaraciones de Gustavo Petro sobre el ‘Libro de la Verdad’: “La estupidez del sectarismo”
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News On AIR: Colombian President Gustavo Petro Arrives in Venezuela to Meet Acting President Delcy Rodriguez
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Infobae: Réplica de Gustavo Petro e Iván Cepeda desató una ola de reacciones entre el oficialismo y la oposición: los llamaron “cínicos”
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Infobae: Gustavo Petro dijo que la anulación de la reserva de 1.499 hectáreas en La Baja “entrega” el área a multinacionales del oro cerca de Santurbán
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Infobae: Gustavo Petro reaccionó a las duras críticas de Abelardo de la Espriella y dijo cómo dejó a Colpensiones, la Dian, el FNA y la deuda de Colombia
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NTN24: Presidente del Senado de Colombia respondió a la solicitud de revocación del permiso de salida del país de Petro: “Ya es una decisión tomada”
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Infobae: Gustavo Petro arremetió contra Abelardo de la Espriella, mientras el país lucha por superar la emergencia: habló de “limosnas” de los empresarios
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NTN24: Angie Rodríguez, exdirectora del Dapre, pide revocar permiso de Petro para salir de Colombia por denuncia presentada ante la Cámara
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Published video “Réplica del gabinete de la vida”.
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Published video “Me despiden con Honores Militares en la Casa de Nariño”.
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teleSUR English: Petro Remains in Colombia and Denies Rumors of Arrest or Extradition
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Infobae: El abogado de Angie Rodríguez pidió al Senado revocar el permiso que le otorgó a Gustavo Petro para viajar al exterior, tras denunciarlo
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Infobae: Gustavo Petro sí aparecerá en la réplica del Pacto Histórico al presidente Abelardo de la Espriella, que ya tiene fecha y hora para su emisión
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El Universo: Gustavo Petro resta importancia al ‘Libro de la Verdad’ sobre denuncias por corrupción contra su gobierno
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Public attention spiked: 6,858 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.1× the usual 1,672, with 6 article edits. Editors noted: Updated short description
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Published video “Acto protocolario de la entrega de la Orden de Boyacá a Carlos Jacanamijoy”.
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Published video “Festival por la defensa de la Educación Superior Pública”.
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Published video “Develación del retrato presidencial del Presidente Gustavo Petro en la Casa de Nariño”.
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Published video “Declaración a medios nacionales e internacionales”.
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Petro arrived in Cuba for his last foreign visit before his term ended next week
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Published video “Consejo de Ministros”.
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Published video “Condecoraciones Orden de Boyacá”.
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Published video “Entrega de archivos desclasificados del DAS”.
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Public attention spiked: 20,365 Wikipedia readers in one day, 12.2× the usual 1,672, with 24 article edits. Editors noted: fixed spelling error
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Public attention spiked: 6,917 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.1× the usual 1,672, with 9 article edits. Editors noted: actually this is better
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Public attention spiked: 9,252 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.5× the usual 1,672, with 5 article edits. Editors noted: Undid revision 1357036313 by Newpictures11 (talk) Reverted: used a raw sidebar instead of a navbox template
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fact checker rated the claim “Colombian President Gustavo Petro addressing Donald Trump after the U.S. military operation in Venezuela.” misleading.
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2025· 4 entries
Snopes rated the claim “In fall 2025, Colombia President Gustavo Petro called for The Hague to investigate U.S. President Donald Trump over boat strikes in the Caribbean.” True.
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The Financial Times noted that Petro "frequently turn[ed] up late to important meetings or misse[d] them and has disappeared from public view for days at a time," and noted that he was in the habit of making "long, rambl
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Petro sacked his whole government right after appointing Armando Benedetti as chief of staff and Laura Sarabia as foreign minister as they had both been embroiled in the campaign finance scandal
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Petro sacked his whole government following his previous choice to appoint the scandal-ridden political operator Armando Benedetti as chief of staff, while promoting Laura Sarabia, a 30-year-old confidante, to foreign mi
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2024· 3 entries
Awarded Knight Grand Cordon with Collar of the Order of Palestine (2024).
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Since 1904, his disagreements with the Office of the Attorney General of Colombia and his supporters' violent attack against the Supreme Court, the arrest of his son Nicolas in a money laundering scandal involving campai
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Petro publicly denounced a plot that forced him to cancel his appearance at a military parade on 20 July
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2023· 2 entries
Awarded Collar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (2023).
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Partly due to Gustavo Petro's policies
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2022· 7 entries
Election won: 2022 presidential election.
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Awarded Order of Boyacá (2022).
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Awarded Order of San Carlos (2022).
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“I congratulate the women who waged the fight against the criminalization of abortion that criminalized them and killed them. Their victory is theirs. The empowerment of women that arises from here, sexual education and freedoms are the best way to protect life”
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Career landmark: President of Colombia (2022–2026).
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Campaign: 2022 presidential election.
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“serious mistake of linking his social program to oil revenues”
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2021· 2 entries
“according to the first investigations,”
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Petro declared that he would be running in the 2022 elections
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2020· 1 entry
Petro said that if Colombia reestablished diplomatic relations, cut off by Maduro, and sold food to Venezuela, Venezuelan immigration would cease
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2019· 1 entry
Petro criticized the idea of an American military intervention against Maduro's regime, stating that "only Venezuelans should solve Venezuela's problems", that "it's not a coup d'état backed by foreigners that will bring
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2018· 7 entries
Election won: 2018 presidential election.
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Awarded honorary professor presented by National University of Lanús (2018).
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Campaign: 2018 presidential election.
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Gustavo Petro was again a presidential candidate, this time getting the second best result in voting counting in the first round on 27 May, and advanced to the second round
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At a political meeting in Magangué about topics unrelated to religion (the forced displacement of peasants by paramilitary groups), Petro said: “In the end, if God exists, and hopefully he does, that has no forgiveness
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Career landmark: member of the Senate of Colombia (2018–2022).
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In 2018, at a political meeting in Magangué about topics unrelated to religion (the forced displacement of peasants by paramilitary groups), Petro said: “In the end, if God exists, and hopefully he does, that has no forgiveness.” This led an internet portal to accuse him of being an atheist.
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2016· 1 entry
Petro ironized about the crisis in Venezuela, in a year when shortages and malnutrition were rampant, by posting a photo of a supermarket with full shelves on Twitter and saying, "I went into a supermarket in Caracas and
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2014· 1 entry
Career landmark: Mayor of Bogota (2014–2015).
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2013· 1 entry
Petro affirmed that he was a "great Latin American leader", saying: "You lived in Chávez's times and maybe you thought he was a clown
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2012· 1 entry
Career landmark: Mayor of Bogota (2012–2014).
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2010· 1 entry
Campaign: 2010 presidential election.
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2009· 1 entry
Resigned his Senate seat to run in the 2010 Colombian presidential election, finishing fourth in the first round
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2008· 1 entry
Petro announced his interest in a presidential candidacy for 2010
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2006· 3 entries
Career landmark: member of the Senate of Colombia (2006–2010).
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Admitted to having received financial support from Enilse López
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Petro was elected to the Senate, mobilizing the second highest voter turnout in the country
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2005· 3 entries
To form the Alternative Democratic Pole, joining a large number of leftist political figures
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While a member of the Chamber of Representatives, Petro denounced the lottery businesswoman Enilse López (also known as "La Gata" [the cat])
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And was illegally taken from Montes’s home; he accused Martínez of participating in the operation
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2002· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia (2002–2006).
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Petro was elected to the Chamber of Representatives representing Bogotá, this time as a member of the Vía Alterna political movement he founded with former colleague Antonio Navarro Wolff and other former M-19 members
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2000· 12 entries
“El Congreso tiene un núcleo de parlamentarios que es fundamental para aprobar o hundir leyes, y está ligado a los carteles. En esa medida, lo que tiene que pensar el país es sí no se necesita una instancia diferente de reformas que el Congreso, como lo fue el Congresito en la Constituyente del 91. No creo que Colombia necesite una nueva Constitución sino aplicar la que tiene.”
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“El genocidio en Gaza está ligado a la política de drogas, a la migración y al cambio climático; es una demostración de lo que quieren hacer en toda América, en África, en el mundo árabe: el poder de la barbarie. Creen que hay una raza superior y tratan a los migrantes como esclavos.”
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“Y finalmente recuerden: país rico no es aquel donde los pobres logran tener carro, sino donde los ricos toman el transporte publico.”
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“Hoy, la acción incapaz del sionismo, fuertemente respaldado por el capital financiero internacional que parcialmente controlan, impide la paz y desatan el horror sobre Palestina, llevando a sus facciones más radicales a la trampa tendida del terrorismo.”
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“Las FARC no son un proyecto revolucionario sino conservador y retrógrado.”
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“Mi pasado es el de un rebelde que empuñó armas para matar en un pais democrático, para enfrentar a los que consideré tiranos.”
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“No hay raza superior, señores. No hay pueblo elegido de Dios. No lo es Estados Unidos ni Israel. El pueblo elegido de Dios es la humanidad entera.”
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“Scientists have analyzed this. Cocaine is no worse than whiskey. [...] If you want peace, you have to dismantle the [drug trafficking industry]. It could easily be dismantled if they legalize cocaine in the world. It would be sold like wine.”
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“Que uno tenga que coger las armas no significa que uno tenga que adorarlas y que no haya un momento en el que toque dejarlas.”
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“[Fentanyl] is killing Americans and it is not made in Colombia. [...] Fentanyl was created as a pharmacy drug by North American multinationals.”
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“Si un país como Estados Unidos vuelve al chauvinismo, los seres humanos tenemos el derecho a la rebelión contra el tirano.”
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“Creo que existen terroristas vestidos de civil y de corbata, pero los están cogiendo presos y casi todos son amigos del Presidente Uribe.”
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1998· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia (1998–2002).
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1995· 2 entries
Studied at University of Salamanca (1995).
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Studied at UCLouvain (1995).
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1994· 4 entries
Career landmark: ambassador of Colombia to Luxembourg (1994–1996).
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On Seventh Street in Bogotá, after inviting the latter to come to Colombia to learn more about the new Political Constitution of 1991
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Studied at Pontifical Xavierian University (1994).
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Career landmark: ambassador of Colombia to Belgium (1994–1996).
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1992· 1 entry
After which he married politician and civic leader Mary Luz Herrán
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1991· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia (1991–1994).
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Representing the department of Cundinamarca
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1990· 1 entry
Studied at High School of Public Administration of Colombia. (ESAP) (1990).
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1989· 1 entry
“Bogota is saying yes to reconciliation, yes to peace.”
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1987· 1 entry
M-19 engaged in peace talks with the government
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1986· 1 entry
During his relationship with Katia Burgos, his eldest son, Nicolás, was born
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1985· 2 entries
By the army for his affiliation with M-19, which had attacked the Palace of Justice that year and resulted in the death of 11 of the twenty-five justices in the Supreme Court of Justice of Colombia
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Petro was arrested by the army for illegal arms possession
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1982· 2 entries
With a bachelor's degree in economics from the Universidad Externado de Colombia and began graduate studies at the Escuela Superior de Administración Pública (ESAP)
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Studied at Universidad Externado de Colombia, bachelor's degree (1982).
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1974· 1 entry
In opposition to the National Front coalition after allegations of fraud in the 1970 election
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1960· 2 entries
Born 1960-04-19.
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“s age based pension. In June 2026, Petro commented on a newspaper column by Felipe Zuleta Lleras in El Espectador by posting the phrase “Heil Hitler”
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1870· 1 entry
And Petro's mother is of half Italian descent via Petro's maternal grandmother, Lucia Pellegrini, who was from Conza della Campania, thus earning him dual Colombian and Italian citizenship
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