I'm John Dr. Dr. with my colleague, Professor Avanelles, just returned from the Americas.

There's trouble in Bogota.

Reuters, armed groups totaled 21,958 people in a recent survey by the end of June 2025.

This is 45% more than the estimate of 15,000 plus in mid-22 when President

Gustavo Petro took office. And I want to go immediately to the detention of a man who is said

to have hired the teenager who used a pistol to shoot a headshot of Senator Rebae,

who remains in a hospital on critical condition, a 39-year-old man.

But his polling is extremely positive right now.

He's a leading candidate for the presidency in 26.

However, what we have here is the suggestion that under a former terrorist boss,

Gustavo Petro, that what we have is a country out of control and has lost at least security

in the areas outside of Bogota. What is your measure of the petro government now?

Is it destabilizing as we speak?

A great question, John.

And so as you alluded to, there is really a sense of political paralysis,

but also a crumbling of the security situation, in part because of the

political situation, also the personal situation of its current leader in former M-19,

guerrilla Gustavo Petro.

But as you alluded to, first, the report that came out with an internal report done by the

Colombian intelligence and security services, which was made public, doing an estimation of the different armed groups.

Essentially, under Gustavo Petro's total peace policy, he was essentially trying to extend what was already a flawed agreement from 2016, demobilizing the FARC.

He was trying to extend it to other groups.

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