Colombia will start taxing the country's richest residents with the country's leftist president selling it as a "solidarity payment" to the society that made them wealthy.
Once a gun-toting guerilla fighter, President Gustavo Petro rose to office on August 7 on a campaign centred around social progress in one of the world's most unequal countries.
As one of his first policies, Petro hopes the tax could raise $11.5billion for anti-povery programs, including free public university.
