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Economy & Business - April 2023
COLOMBIA: Petro’s reforms unveil coalition cracks
Pushing through a pension reform bill can test the limits of any democratically elected government, as evidenced by the protests that France’s President Emmanuel Macron has faced in recent weeks. Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro raised the stakes further by driving forward with three major reform proposals at once, all while he seeks to push the largest land redistribution in Colombian history, lead a transition to clean energy, and make electoral processes more democratic.
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