Taxes
He wants to repeal the 2019 tax reform and start a new one that will increase revenue. With that he says that he would already raise 20 billion pesos. On occasion he has said that the 4,000 largest fortunes in Colombia have to pay more jobs. The new expense of his program is 19.5, while the tax reform that he proposes is 50 billion. Half of that, he says, should go to cutting the fiscal deficit.
Venezuela
He is in favor of resuming diplomatic and consular relations with Venezuela. He would put an embassy in Caracas and reopen the borders with the neighboring country to promote the economy.
Education
Petro proposes free public higher education and a total eradication of illiteracy. For ages 0 to 3 there will be a universal and free kindergarten that complements education at home, especially for 2.7 million children at risk of exclusion. In adolescence, she says that you have to actively look for out-of-school children and get them into the system with transportation and food. At the top, she offers the same, and also creates a rescue plan for thousands of students trapped in credits from Icetex, the public company.
drugs
He wants to put an end to the approach of prohibitionism, a failed model in the fight against drugs. The country, according to Petro, must move towards a new paradigm in which producers from rural populations are not criminalized. He will ban the spraying of glyphosate on coca crops and will promote the substitution of land for other economies. There will be programs that guarantee a safe and decent income for the rural population, weakening dependence on the sale of coca or cocaine.
Read all Petro’s proposals here