He definitely has US backing, but Petro has also been very incompetent and malicious in his administration, so the population is also kind of fed up with him. Add the fact that Colombia has been a historically right-leaning country.

Colombia*

And Colombia is already in a lot of violence and corruption, and has been for decades.

Tangential, but I also love when they keep adding bugfixes decades after launch / last content updates.

To be fair, there’s a huge difference between some countries human rights records and China. China is IMO easily a bottom 25%.