Gustavo Petro Archives - Public Seminar

Politics

A New Deal for Colombia

The country’s first left wing government and its hopes for reconciliation

July 6, 2022 • by Aura Angélica Hernández Cárdenas

"On August 7th, 2022, Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez, the first Black woman to serve in high office, will lead the country’s first left-wing government. Their rise to power mirrors the resurgence of various left-wing politicians in other parts of Latin America, which is undergoing a striking ideological shift."...

Perpetuating the Uribe Hegemony

How the Media helped to install and normalize Authoritarianism in Colombia

October 15, 2019 • by Sara Tufano

When they were finally allowed into the camp, the peasants found a hole in the ground and a few meters away, the body of Dimar, killed with a shot to the head. This assassination reactivated memories of the so-miscalled "false positives", or extrajudicial executions, that many of us in Colombia believed were ...

Gustavo Petro and the Colombian Populist Moment

An interview with Luciana Cadahia

August 2, 2018 • by Gerardo Muñoz

Luciana Cadahia (Ph.D. Unidad Autónoma de Madrid [UAM]) is one of the most original voices in contemporary Latin American political thought. Although her academic work has focused on debates in political theory and the tradition of German Idealism, her recent interventions on populism and democratic theory are charged with a theoretical depth that ...