— Three people were killed and one was injured when a

“I’m mobilizing because I feel that my rights have been violated,” Yeimy Cante Toro, a member of the union of workers from non-governmental organizations, said as she demonstrated in Bogota.A day earlier, Interior Minister Armando Benedetti said Petro will issue a decree on June 1 to authorize the referendum if lawmakers fail to vote on it again.

A demonstrator holds a sign reading in Spanish “Yes to the referendum” during a strike called by pro-government labor unions in support of reforms proposed by President Gustavo Petro in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, May 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)A demonstrator holds a sign reading in Spanish “Yes to the referendum” during a strike called by pro-government labor unions in support of reforms proposed by President Gustavo Petro in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, May 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)date back to the start of his term in 2022, but they have heightened as he seeks to consolidate his legacy ahead of next year’s legislative and presidential elections. Petro, Colombia’s first leftist president, is eligible for reelection.

“Congress gave the government a lifeline at a moment of great weakness by rejecting the labor reform,” said Mauricio Velásquez, a political science professor at the University of Los Andes. “It gave (Petro) the opportunity to repeat the strategy of using legislative failure as a way to stir up the political arena.”PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) —

could soon have its first female president after a party led by a medical doctor formed a coalition aimed at ousting the South American country’s current leader following a weekend election with no clear winner.

Dr. Jennifer Geerlings-Simons, of the National Democratic Party, formed a coalition with five other parties late Tuesday as workers still tallied votes from Sunday’s National Assembly election. The chamber chooses the president by a two-thirds vote.A crew with the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority installs power poles for a home, at top right, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024, on the Navajo Nation in Halchita, Utah. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

A crew with the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority installs power poles for a home, at top right, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024, on the Navajo Nation in Halchita, Utah. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)Many Navajo families still live without electricity, a product of historic neglect and the struggle to get services on the vast Native American reservation in the southwestern United States. Some rely on solar panels or generators, while others have no electricity whatsoever. (AP Video: Joshua A. Bickel)

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of a series of on how tribes and Indigenous communities are coping with and combating climate change.“We are a part of America that a lot of the time feels kind of left out,” said Vircynthia Charley, district manager at the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority, a non-for-profit utility that provides electric, water, wastewater, natural gas and solar energy services.