Colombia Archives - Empoword Journalism https://www.empowordjournalism.com/tag/colombia/ Led by women. Uniting and empowering journalists across the globe. Tue, 23 Aug 2022 13:09:41 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Former rebel fighter sworn in as Colombia’s first left-wing president https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/a-former-rebel-fighter-is-sworn-in-as-the-first-leftist-president-of-colombia/ https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/a-former-rebel-fighter-is-sworn-in-as-the-first-leftist-president-of-colombia/#respond Tue, 23 Aug 2022 13:06:19 +0000 https://www.empowordjournalism.com/?p=29481 Last week Gustavo Petro, aged 62, having won the election in June earlier this year, was sworn in as president of Colombia at the Plaza de Bolivar in the country’s capital, Bogota. The ceremony was attended by around 100,000 guests including the king of Spain Felipe VI and nine Latin American presidents.

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