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Colombia Could Have Had a Coke-Legalizing, TikTok-Famous President. They Elected a Socialist Instead.

President-elect Gustavo Petro could easily take Colombia in an illiberal direction.

Reason

Colombia president-elect firms up congressional allies; handover begins

Colombian President-elect Gustavo Petro on Thursday began to firm up party alliances that could give him a congressional majority and met with the country's current president to start the handover process.

Reuters

Colombia election: Former rebel Gustavo Petro becomes South American nation’s first leftist president

Francia Marquez will also become the country’s first black woman vice-president

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Jubilant Gustavo Petro elected Colombia's first leftist president

Bogota (AFP) - Ex-guerrilla Gustavo Petro was elected the first ever left-wing president of Colombia on Sunday, after beating millionaire businessman Rodolfo Hernandez in a tense and unpredictable runoff election.

AFP

Gustavo Petro elected Colombia's first left-wing president

Bogota (AFP) - Ex-guerrilla Gustavo Petro was elected the first ever left-wing president of crisis-wracked Colombia on Sunday after beating millionaire businessman Rodolfo Hernandez in a tense and unpredictable runoff election.

AFP

Colombia elects former guerrilla Petro as first left-wing president

Gustavo Petro, a former member of the M-19 guerrilla movement who has vowed profound social and economic change, won Colombia's presidency on Sunday, the first progressive to do so in the country's history.

The Independent UK

Leftist Petro wins Colombia presidential election

Leftist Gustavo Petro, a former member of the M-19 guerrilla movement who has vowed profound social and economic change, will be Colombia's next president after beating construction magnate Rodolfo Hernandez in an election on Sunday.

Reuters

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Counting begins after Colombia vote between ex-guerrilla and maverick

Bogota (AFP) - Counting began after Colombians voted on Sunday in a presidential election filled with uncertainty, as ex-guerrilla Gustavo Petro and millionaire businessman Rodolfo Hernandez vie for power in a country saddled with widespread poverty, an uptick in violence and other woes.

AFP

Colombia braces for economic change as Petro wins presidency

Gustavo Petro, a former guerrilla who wants to transform Colombia’s business-friendly economic model, was elected to the presidency, potentially setting up the most radical change of course in the Andean nation’s recent history.

Tribune News Service

Economic model and US relations at stake in Colombia’s election

Colombians are voting in a presidential election to choose between an ex-guerrilla who wants to transform their business-friendly economic model, and a construction magnate who is under investigation for corruption.

Tribune News Service

Leftist Petro takes early lead in Colombia's presidential election

Leftist candidate Gustavo Petro took an early lead in a partial vote count for Colombia’s presidential election.

Tribune News Service

Former rebel Gustavo Petro wins Colombia's presidential election

Colombians elect the country's first leftist president and first Black woman to be vice president.

WEKU

Colombia elects former guerrilla Petro as first leftist president

Leftist Gustavo Petro, a former member of the M-19 guerrilla movement, who has vowed profound social and economic change, won Colombia's presidency on Sunday, the first progressive to do so in the country's history.

Reuters

Colombians will choose between leftist and eccentric businessman in Sunday vote

Colombians will vote on Sunday for their next president, choosing between leftist Gustavo Petro, who promises profound social reforms, and eccentric business magnate Rodolfo Hernandez, who has found fertile ground in anti-corruption rhetoric despite facing a graft investigation.

Reuters

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Colombians vote in high stakes presidential runoff

Bogota (AFP) - Colombians vote Sunday in a presidential runoff that features promises of radical change in a country saddled with widespread poverty, violence and other woes.

The Conversation

What's at stake as Colombians choose between Trump-like populist and leftist former guerrilla for president

Colombians will decide their next president on June 19, 2022, with a choice between two candidates promising “change.” But what they mean by change is very, very different.

Reuters

Colombia presidential candidate Hernandez vows to respect result

Colombia presidential candidate Rodolfo Hernandez, an eccentric construction magnate, said on Wednesday he will respect the results of Sunday's vote whether he wins or loses to leftist rival Gustavo Petro.

Reuters

Colombia's police on highest alert over election violence

Colombia's police are on maximum alert after detecting plans by radical groups to reject the results of a second presidential election vote on Sunday and commit violence across the country, top cop General Luis Vargas said on Tuesday.

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Petro's call for change in Colombia rattles armed forces

Members of Colombia's armed forces - especially its police - are worried they will face significant changes if leftist candidate Gustavo Petro wins the presidency this month, a dozen active and retired officials told Reuters.

Reuters

Colombia candidate Petro says 'human' campaign will carry him to victory

Leftist Colombian presidential candidate Gustavo Petro said on Friday he will win a tight June 19 contest against construction magnate Rodolfo Hernandez by showing his human side and, once elected, invite his rivals to dialogue.

Reuters

New poll shows tight runoff between Colombia's presidential candidates

Independent candidate Rodolfo Hernandez and leftist Gustavo Petro were locked in a tight virtual tie for the June 19 runoff election for Colombia's presidency, according to an Invamer poll released on Friday.

Reuters

Colombia presidential candidate Hernandez says his life is threatened

Colombian presidential candidate Rodolfo Hernandez said on Thursday he was canceling any remaining in-person appearances at campaign events because he is certain his life is in danger.

Reuters

Analysis: Colombia's extractive industries watching election warily

Colombia's leftist firebrand presidential candidate Gustavo Petro is too close in recent polls for the comfort of oil companies and miners who worry that his promised policies would imperil Colombia's economy and energy self-sufficiency, high-ranking industry figures and business associations said.

Miami Herald

He leads in Colombia’s presidential election, but few know what his presidency would be like

Construction businessman Rodolfo Hernandez surprised many Colombians Sunday when he moved on to the runoff in the presidential election thanks to a populist anti-corruption message spread through social media that followed in the footsteps of the Donald Trump campaign in 2016.

Reuters

Petro, Hernandez neck and neck in Colombia presidential election

Colombia's leftist former guerrilla Gustavo Petro and construction magnate Rodolfo Hernandez were technically tied ahead of a second round of presidential elections, a poll showed on Wednesday.

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