This is CBSI on the world.

The New World Report, my colleagues Joseph Uymer, executive director of Secure Free Society.

He's traveling.

He's in Bogota, Colombia.

And Ernestara Ujah, former foreign minister of the Republic of Brazil, he's in North America.

We begin in Bogota, Colombia.

Joseph, quickly, these last weeks have been rocky to be to understate for Gustavo Petro,

elected popularly some years ago.

However, firing of the cabinet momentarily stunned everybody,

and then claiming that a cartel with two anti-air missiles was tracking to kill him

and then beginning to hire a cabinet back some controversial some not the approval rating is very

low and perhaps going lower can we understand why gustavo petro is struggling? Good evening to you, Joseph. Good evening, John.

Well, it's very clear why he's struggling because he has proven to be very incompetent on a lot of

a myriad out of issues. I mean, the number one thing you hear about, and I heard this as soon as I

arrived here in Colombia and Bogota, is prices. Inflation is now creeping up. It's

starting to approach double digits here in Colombia. And so the price of goods and services is

rising while wages and income is going low or stagnating at best. So people are very concerned

about that. There's also the problem of insecurity. There's just normal crime and violence that's increasing in major urban centers and cities throughout the country. But there's also the problem of insecurity. There's just normal crime and violence that's increasing in major urban centers and cities

throughout the country.

But there's also a major, major conflict taking place along the borderway Venezuela in the

department of Santander, in the northern part of that department in Colombia, which has

always been a hotbed for drug trafficking activity, but it's been

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