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Colombia: Gustavo Petro, former guerrilla and first left-wing president
Historic vote in Colombia. Gustavo Petro became on Sunday the first left-wing Colombian president in history, with the ambition to “change” a country in crisis and which has never known…
Gustavo Petro: Left-wing candidate won the presidential election in Colombia
Gustavo Petro, a former member of the guerrilla movement, won the second round of the presidential election in Colombia. Petro, who will form the country’s first left-wing government, said the…
Left-wing leader Gustavo Petro, President of Colombia
Petro succeeds the unpopular conservative Iván Duque, who was not allowed to stand for a new round due to the country’s election laws. At his side as vice president, Petro…
Left-wing Petro is Colombia’s next president – Hernandez admitted his defeat
Former rebel Gustavo Petro is Colombia’s first left-wing president. In Colombia, the left-wing, former rebel has won the rigorous second round of the presidential election Gustavo Petro. When all the…
Gustavo Petro widely in the lead, Rodolfo Hernandez created the surprise
Opponent Gustavo Petro easily won Sunday’s first round of the presidential election in Colombia. He will face in the second round on June 19 an independent candidate, the millionaire Rodolfo…
Petro promises there will be no nationalization if he wins
In Colombia, less than six weeks before the first round of the presidential election, the left-wing candidate is trying to reassure centrist voters. The favorite in the polls has pledged…
first post-conflict ballot, Gustavo Petro in ambush
This Sunday, March 13 in Colombia, thirty-nine million voters are called to the polls to elect the Congress, Senate and House of Representatives. Voters are also taking part in one…