Evan Ellis - China's Advance in Colombia in the Time of Petro
Dear Colleagues:
With this email, I’m proud to share my latest work on activities by the PRC and its companies in Colombia, based on my research, and interactions with subject matter experts during a May 2025 visit to Colombia.
My publication of this work coincides with this week’s tragic attempted assassination of Presidential pre-Candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay. reminding colombians not only of the dramatic deterioration of security under the Petro Administration, but the connection to a darker time Colombians believed they had moved beyond, that included the murder of Uribe’s own mother Diana Turbay, in a failed attempt to rescue her after her kidnapping by Pablo Escobar’s drug cartel.
The work is available for download here in ENGLISH:
It is available here for download in SPANISH:
It is also available from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) which published it in ENGLISH:
https://www.csis.org/analysis/chinas-advance-colombia-time-gustavo-petro
It is available from Infobae, which published it in Spanish:
https://www.infobae.com/colombia/2025/06/10/el-avance-de-china-en-colombia-en-tiempos-de-gustavo-petro/
Podcasts, Media Appearances, and Radio Shows:
I would like to share with you my latest podcasts, media appearance and radio shows.
These include an extended interview with John Price, that I am particularly proud of, aired May 24th on his widely followed Latin America oriented business intelligence show “Horizontes” in which we discuss PRC engagement in Latin America and the U.S. response:
My media appearances also include my latest weekly segments on the John Batchelor Show, in his special ongoing series on Latin America, The New World Report.
The latest episodes (June 5, 2025) are:
Immigration and Mexico: https://audioboom.com/posts/8731254-newworldreport-mexico-under-morena-latin-american-research-professor-evan-ellis-u-s-army-war
Peru: https://audioboom.com/posts/8731255-newworldreport-peru-troubles-latin-american-research-professor-evan-ellis-u-s-army-war-coll
El Salvador: https://audioboom.com/posts/8731256-newworldreport-bukee-of-el-salvador-latin-american-research-professor-evan-ellis-u-s-army-wa
Suriname and Argentina: https://audioboom.com/posts/8731258-surinam-the-good-news-newworldreport-latin-american-research-professor-evan-ellis-u-s-army
Website for all Publications:
As always, at my professional website you can access these, and past publications, webinars and podcasts:
REvanEllis.com
Latest Book on China-Latin America:
My latest book, China Engages Latin America: Distorting Development and Democracy, is available through my publisher Palgrave-Macmillan, at:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-96049-0
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Thank you, as always, for your interest in my work.
Respectfully,
R. Evan Ellis, PhD
Latin America Research Professor
U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute
@REvanEllis
Website: https://revanellis.com