The minimum you must know

Colombia is a compassionately led country that cares deeply about peace. President Gustavo Petro Urrego devoted his entire annual speech to the United Nations to resolving diplomatic differences between superpowers and creating peace and tranquility globally. Although the President did not pattern "peace" in the speech, Colombia is clearly on the side of national reconciliation globally including between all aligned and non-aligned countries. A previous Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won a Nobel Peace Prize for bringing civil peace to every region of his country, including the most rural ones. And the current administration is clearly even more staunchly peaceful than previous ones.

Colombia is a geographically important country as the only passage way between South and North America. Just south of Panama, Colombia is directly between closely U.S. aligned Ecuador and non-aligned Venezuela. The United States destabilized Venezuela with economic restrictions that prevented the population from participating in the global economy. Consequently, half of Venezuela walked away, including into mountainous Colombia. Some refugees who find their way to Colombia can ultimately make it to the United States. Colombia has a democratically elected government and capitalist market-based economy modeled after the United States. But the country has been forced by the volume of impoverished immigration to provide a socialist safety net to a lot of people. Many immigrants would not have survived without that help.

Colombia asked the closely aligned United States not to return refugees to them - and initially declined some flights. But President Donald Trump insisted U.S. immigration return flights be accepted. According to President Trump’s newspaper, Newsmax, "Government of Colombia has agreed to all of President Trump's terms, including the unrestricted acceptance of all illegal aliens from Colombia returned from the United States, including on U.S. military aircraft, without limitation or delay."

Internal Colombian gang clashes between the National Liberation Army (ELN) and a rival armed group, EMBF, erupted in January 2025 in the remote northeastern region, leaving dozens dead, including former combatants, peace signatories, social leaders, and human rights defenders.

Colombia is a rapidly developing country that's diplomatically a stabilizing influence globally. Colombia is adamant that all nations behave well towards one another. The current Colombian government is a very tough rhetorical proponent of peace, and right to be insistent. Colombia is literally the most insistently peaceful country at the United Nations.