SHOTLIST BOGOTA, COLOMBIA (JUNE 25, 2025) (ANADOLU – ACCESS ALL) 1. COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT GUSTAVO PETRO ARRIVING AT CEREMONY 2. VARIOUS OF PETRO SIGNING LABOR REFORM LAW 2460 OF 2025 3. VARIOUS OF TIGHT SECURITY MEASURES IN PLACE AT CEREMONY VENUE 4. SIGNING CEREMONY 5. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT GUSTAVO PETRO, SAYING: "And it is on the basis of that consensus from the House of Representatives that this law I just signed was finally approved. A law that as soon as it is published, governs the entire country, the entire nation. It serves here under the sun, you are already in the shade. My sun is running out and the shade is coming to me too. In one year. So, hopefully it won't be darkness for the country. That depends on the people. It cannot be, it cannot be. We must elect a government that protects this law and applies it. Because now the great problem with the law, like many other current ones, is that it is not enforced. One way to evade the law is to leave it as a dead letter, as they left most of Colombia's constitution as a dead letter. What I have proposed to Colombian society is that it self-convene because I don't want it to be a dead letter. Not because I want a new constitution, we really need to apply the existing one. The existing constitution is not applied. And the responsibility for it not being applied lies with those who have led Colombia for the last 34 years. I wouldn't go further back because also... It's a dead letter and therefore I don't want this law to be a dead letter, neither the constitution, nor the law. And that's why we have the progressive government this year and the next government, watch out. And the working people, their organizations, etc. We must guarantee that the law is applied.A young man, a young woman who lives excluded like the one who wanted to kill me recently, there are several, cannot. That boy who was the material author cannot. We still don't know the intellectual authors and therefore the investigation continues. There could be many, there are many hypotheses. None have to do with this president, so I asked that the slanderer who is out there be criminally denounced. Of the hypotheses, none have to do with this president. So those gentlemen who speak of alleged responsibility are hiding something. And that must be investigated. But it's the investigation that has to speak, not the president. They already scolded me for that. Those boys, hitmen, many, most of them were killed so they wouldn't talk. My government protected the hitman. The justice minister, well, that's where he started talking. They don't like victims to speak. They kill them first, extradite them first, lock them in prisons to be threatened and when they start talking they threaten their families and their children. Like so many elderly men and women, under these suns, or under the cold, the last day has certainly endured cold, or under the rains, they go there with their cart. And for what reason does a person already of retirement age, a woman of retirement age after a lifetime of work, have to continue working in the worst conditions to be able to have a bowl of soup? That's what the labor reform solves. The pension reform and also the labor reform, because we're talking about the workers of the future. We need only one more bill to be able to tell the Colombian people we have fulfilled, we are fulfilling and our word is true. My daughter was threatened and she is only 16 years old. There's a killer out there who wants to attack my daughter first before me. Because the killer says she's what I love most in my life. He gathers intelligence, how does he know? Well, from photos, but how does he know? We're looking into that, one day I'll talk about these matters."BOGOTA, COLOMBIA - JUNE 25: Colombian President Gustavo Petro officially enacted two major laws at a ceremony held at the Quinta de Bolivar in Bogota on Wednesday, June 25. Petro signed Law 2460 of 2025, a landmark labor reform aimed at expanding and guaranteeing workers’ rights across the country. The law introduces new regulations to improve job security, working conditions, and social protections for Colombian employees. During the same ceremony, Petro also signed the new Mental Health Law, which updates the national legal framework for psychosocial health and addresses the country’s evolving mental health needs.