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The struggle for social justice in Colombia
Right-wing forces continuously obstruct the progressive agenda of Gustavo Petro's government, writes NICK MacWILLIAM
READJUSTING THE ECONOMY: The gigantic El Correjon coal mine and Gustavo Petro at the Annual Meeting of World Economic Forum in Davos last week
[Mine photo: Hour.poing CC]
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The Morning Star publishes the Communist Party of Britain's 58th congress address by general secretary ROBERT GRIFFITHS, delivered on November 15 2025
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SINCE entering office in August 2022, Colombia’s progressive government of Gustavo Petro has acted swiftly to implement its own version of “levelling up” – no small feat in a country where chronic underdevelopment and violence have produced one of the planet’s most unequal societies.
In Colombia’s northernmost region of La Guajira, Wayuu indigenous communities experience some of the most deprived social conditions on the South American continent, due in large part to the devastating social-environmental impact of El Cerrejon, the massive coal mine owned by London-based multinational Glencore.
Last September, the government instigated an emergency relief plan to provide significant state investment in education, healthcare and environmental protection in La Guajira, a region where 55 children died during January-September 2023 owing to food insecurity, preventable disease and lack of clean water.
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