Colombia Elects Leftist Ex-Guerrilla Gustavo Petro as President

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Ex-guerrilla Gustavo Petro will be the first leftist to lead the country, and his vice president will be the first black woman in that post

Colombia has elected a new president—ex-guerrilla Gustavo Petro, who will be the first leftist to lead the country, and whose vice president will be the first black woman in that post.

Petro was a fighter in the M-19 army in the 1980s and served as mayor of Bogotá. He defeated scandal-prone business titan Rodolfo Hernández with just 50.47 percent of the vote in a runoff. “It really is a new moment for Colombia,” Luis Eduardo Celis of the Peace and Reconciliation Foundation told

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