Public Safety & Cost of City Services Top of Mind for Voters 50-plus
November 6, 2023
BOGOTA, March 13 (Reuters) – Gustavo Petro, the front-runner for Colombia’s May presidential election, secured the nomination of the left-wing Historic Pact coalition on Sunday during voting in primaries. Centrist Sergio Fajardo and right-winger Federico Gutierrez, both former mayors of Colombia’s second city Medellin, also secured nominations from their respective coalitions. Petro, a former guerrilla in the[Read More…]
Colombian authorities are investigating 10 police officers who allowed civilians to shoot at demonstrators in Cali, a high-ranking official said on Monday, while the attorney general’s office linked three more deaths to protests. The Andean country has seen more than a month of protests against the social and economic policies[Read More…]
Across Latin America and the Caribbean, one in every six people aged 18 to 29 has left work since the coronavirus pandemic began, forcing many to abandon their studies, a report said on Thursday. The precariousness of employment for young people rose across the region, according to an investigation by[Read More…]