In the News: Presidential campaign finance scandal in Colombia : vimarsana.com

President Gustavo Petro's eldest son, Nicolas Petro, acknowledged that dirty drug money was used to fund his father's campaign last year. Nicolas Petro "received large sums of money from Mr. Samuel Santander Lopez Sierra", convicted of drug trafficking in the United States. The scandal could have serious political consequences for the Colombian head of state. In Haiti, people were killed by armed gangs in July in the Artibonite department, north of the capital Port-au-Prince, according to human rights organization Jeon Kleon Klere.

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