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Weekly Report - 25 July 2024 (WR-24-29)
COLOMBIA: Petro contrite as finance minister investigated
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro was uncharacteristically sheepish as he addressed legislators at the opening of a new congressional period on 20 June. The coming weeks, in which Petro had hoped to make headway on steering his government’s labour reform bill through congress, are instead likely to be dominated by an escalating corruption scandal in the government’s disaster risk management unit (UNGRD), with Finance Minister Ricardo Bonilla the most high-profile official to be placed under investigation in relation to the case.
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