Yuli Velásquez shot at near Barrancabermeja, her guard wounded in the attack
PBI-Mexico accompanied ASMAC and CONTEC sign letter on socio-environmental conflict
On June 24 PBI-Mexico tweeted:
PBI-Kenya accompanies Mothers of Victims and Survivors Network march for peaceful elections and against police violence
On June 23, PBI-Kenya tweeted:
Gustavo Petro wins presidential election in Colombia
Photo by Fernando Vergara/ Associated Press.
On June 19, Gustavo Petro and Francia Marquez won the second-round vote to become Colombia’s next president and vice-president.
They won with 50.49 percent of the vote over the right-wing populist millionaire businessman Rodolfo Hernández (who won 47.25 percent of the vote).
Petro on open-pit mines and fracking