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Colombian centrist must push social policies to win over polarized nation in vote -analysts

Mathematician Sergio Fajardo, chosen to represent Colombia's center-left coalition at presidential elections in May, will need to present concrete policies against poverty and graft to defeat foes in a bitterly polarized nation, analysts said.

Reuters · Mar 14, 2022

Colombia selects candidates who’ll battle Petro for presidency

For months, Gustavo Petro, the former guerrilla and Bogota mayor, has been all the talk ahead of Colombia’s presidential elections. The rich fear him, while many of the poor love his promises to redistribute land and wealth.

Tribune News Service · Mar 13, 2022

Colombia protest leaders hope to gain seats in Congress

In the spring of 2021, Colombia experienced the largest protests in decades as hundreds of thousands took to the streets to march against economic inequality, police violence and plans by the country’s cash-strapped government to increase income taxes on the middle class

The Independent UK · Mar 8, 2022