Colombia's president wants to turn the Caribbean coast into a Bitcoin mining hub powered by renewables.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has publicly called for transforming the country's Caribbean coast — including the cities of Santa Marta, Riohacha, and Barranquilla — into a bitcoin mining corridor, citing Venezuela and Paraguay as regional models that successfully attracted mining investment through abundant clean energy.

Petro specifically called for dialogue with the Wayúu indigenous community of northern Colombia to ensure local participation in the project. Colombia's renewable energy base is substantial: the national grid operator XM reported 21,286.9 megawatts of installed renewable capacity at end-2025, anchored by hydropower and increasingly diversified into solar and wind.

A head-of-state publicly championing <a class="ticker-mention" href="/en-US/token/btc">BTC</a> mining as a development tool — and framing indigenous inclusion as a prerequisite — marks a notable shift in how Latin American governments are approaching the…