This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchelor.

New World Report, Professor Evan Ellis,

the Latin American Research Professor,

U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute,

traveling on the road, Bogota, Columbia,

and Columbia in the news from China.

The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, a man known to be passionate about his opinions,

sent information to his leadership and to the military that is strikingly paradoxical

about trouble, about pending trouble in the street, and directing the military to stand down.

Very confusing, which is why we're very good to have Evan Ellis because this isn't even in the Spanish

news yet. Evan, a very good evening to you. Gustavo Petro, his reputation as a guerrilla terrorist

as a younger man, was overcome in the most recent election for Colombia. However, over these last months, there have been repeated reports

of Petro's irregularity in his conduct as president of the country. Now the news triggers him to

be even more irregular about his orders to his military and to his leadership. What happened in the Columbia Senate that set this latest fuselade off?

Good evening to you.

Good evening to you, John.

The backstory about what just happened and it's still developing.

Of course, Petro this week has been in China at the China Slack Summit with a lot of news coming out about

that. But meanwhile, Petro had been trying to push, one of his several very stateist,

socialist-oriented reforms through the Colombian Congress. This particular one was reforming

different labor laws. It was a very kind of promissory giving

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