When Gustavo Petro, Colombia's first progressive president, took office in August, he laid out an ambitious agenda.
His administration would finally achieve a stable peace with Colombia's multiple rebel organizations; it would fight inequality by taxing the top 1% and lifting millions out of poverty; and it would abandon a punitive approach to drug policing that costed millions of lives around the world to little results, he promised.
Three months later, there are signs for optimism: Colombia and the largest rebel group still active in its territory, the National Liberation Army ELN, have signed a commitment to restart peace negotiations after a four years hiatus; and Congress has passed a fiscal plan that aims to collect almost 4 billion USD in new taxes next year.
But drugs remain perhaps the hardest challenge for Petro.
