Colombia’s Petro Uses Flood Emergency to Revive Land Seizure Powers

2026-02-26 - 12:33

Key Points — A new decree under Colombia’s flood emergency authorizes the National Land Agency to occupy, purchase, and expropriate rural properties to relocate disaster victims — with drastically shortened legal timelines. — Critics say the measure recycles an expropriation decree from last year’s Catatumbo security emergency that Congress explicitly rejected when the government tried