Weekly Report - 25 April 2024 (WR-24-16)

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro faced the largest protests of his presidency on 21 April, when hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets around the country to demonstrate against his progressive reform agenda. The scale of the marches may further chip away at Petro’s dwindling political capital, the deterioration of which was exposed by the senate’s rejection of his flagship health reform bill last month. Petro will be hoping for a strong response from his base in left-wing demonstrations planned for the Labour Day public holiday on 1 May.

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