{"id":18247,"date":"2024-04-22T12:47:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T12:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/22\/tens-of-thousands-of-colombians-protest-against-leftist-presidents-agenda\/"},"modified":"2024-04-22T12:47:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T12:47:54","slug":"tens-of-thousands-of-colombians-protest-against-leftist-presidents-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/22\/tens-of-thousands-of-colombians-protest-against-leftist-presidents-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Tens of thousands of Colombians protest against leftist president\u2019s agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">Thousands of Colombians took to the streets Sunday in the latest rebuke of leftist President Gustavo Petro\u2019s reform agenda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The demonstrations took place in several cities, including the capital. Protesters filled Bolivar Plaza outside the presidential palace in Bogot\u00e1.<\/p>\n<p>While protests have been constant since the former leftist guerrilla took office in 2022, they\u2019ve gained momentum of late. Petro has floated the possibility of rewriting the constitution to spur social reforms that he\u2019s been unable to advance in the face of opposition by a hostile congress and conservative business groups.<\/p>\n<p>Petro recently suffered an important defeat when Colombia\u2019s congress refused to pass legislation to boost state control of the country\u2019s health care system aimed at improving and lowering the cost of medical care.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the defeat, Petro ordered by decree the takeover of two of the country\u2019s top medical insurers, on which millions of Colombians depend.<\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Colombians took to the streets Sunday in the latest rebuke of leftist President Gustavo Petro\u2019s reform agenda. The demonstrations took place in several cities, including the capital. Protesters filled Bolivar Plaza outside the presidential palace in Bogot\u00e1. While protests have been constant since the former leftist guerrilla took office in 2022, they\u2019ve gained <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}