On the evening of September 23, Colombia’s lawmakers transformed a routine vote into a high-stakes showdown over democracy and debt. In Bogotá’s grand chamber, legislators challenged President Gustavo Petro’s original COP 556.9 trillion ($121 billion) budget and approved a trimmed COP 546.9 trillion ($119 billion) plan. They cut COP 10 trillion ($2.2 billion) from planned […]
