"I wouldn’t be surprised if the more prosperous, urban, multiple degree‐holding types who supported Petro thinking he was some sort of Nordic social democrat live to regret it." - Daniel Raisbeck
With almost 100% of voting sites reporting, Petro won with approximately 50.5% of the vote, compared to approximately 47.25% of the vote for Hernandez.
Petro, who is praised by his friends for his “solid Marxist foundation,” plans to ban all exploration of oil, Colombia’s main export, to expropriate the nearly $100 billion that are now saved in individual, private pension accounts, and to print money to pay for public spending...
Colombia's June presidential runoff will pit a former leftist rebel guerilla against a construction magnate who lost his daughter to leftist rebel guerillas.
Colombian senator, former mayor of Bogotá, and ex revolutionary militant Gustavo Petro is slated to undergo an operation today in Cuba to remove esophageal cancer.
Sunday’s local and gubernatorial elections in Colombia saw stunning defeats for the Centro Democratico, the political party of both current President Ivan Duque and former president Alvaro Uribe. Far left senator and former revolutionary militant Gustavo Petro also saw his hand...