TheAltWorld What Colombia’s New Left-Wing Government Has Done in Just 3 Weeks
- Rania Khalek
- Tuesday 23 Aug 22
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In just 2 weeks, Colombian President Petro and VP Márquez have taken huge steps to “end the genocide of human rights defenders & social leaders,” address inequality and racism & re-establish relationships with Cuba and Venezuela. Colombian Foreign Minister Álvaro Leyva Durán recently went to Cuba to restart peace negotiations with the National Liberation Army (ELN), the largest leftist guerrilla group active in Colombia.
Journalist Zoe Alexandra, co-editor of Peoples Dispatch, covering social movements and left politics in Latin America and the Caribbean, explains.
Rania Khalek
Rania Khalek is a Middle East-based journalist for Breakthrough News. . Her journalism has appeared at The Grayzone, Jacobin, The Nation, The Intercept, FAIR, Vice, The Electronic Intifada, Al Jazeera and more. .
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