Gustavo Petro

On Wednesday, Colombian Senator, Gustavo Bolivar, filed a bill to legalize adult-use cannabis in the South American country. In 2020, Senator Bolivar tried to legalize the consumption of marijuana but his bill did not have the support of the majority in Congress. Now, with a new Congress and ...

Flora Growth Corp. (NASDAQ: FLGC) met with the author of a new bill to legalize recreational cannabis in Colombia, on the day the legislation was introduced to Congress. Flora’s chairman and CEO Luis Merchan met with Colombian Senator Gustavo Bolivar prior to the bill's introduction to...

Former rebel Gustavo Petro won Sunday's runoff election, becoming the country's first leftist president along with Francia Márquez, the first Black female vice president in Colombia's history. Petro, former mayor of Bogotá, got 50.48% of the votes, while his...

On Sunday, June 19, the Colombian runoff election will define who will be the next president of the Latin-American country. Candidates are Gustavo Petro and Rodolfo Hernández.  The May 29 elections positioned the leftist Petro, from the Historical Pact Party,...