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Presidential candidate Gustavo Petro (centre) and his running mate Francia Marquez (centre right) with the Historical Pact coalition, stand before supporters with Marquez's wife Veronica Alcocer (second from left) and their daughter Andrea on election night in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, May 29, 2022
LEFTIST candidate Gustavo Petro has won the first round of the Colombian elections.
He will face a run-off against a millionaire businessman who has previously praised Adolf Hitler.
The former mayor of Bogota gathered 40.3 per cent of the votes in Sunday’s poll and will go head to head in a second round with Rodolfo Hernandez, who finished in second place on 28 per cent.
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
With Petro, Colombia has been making huge strides towards peace — but is all that at risk with the elections next year? MARK ROWE reports back after joining a delegation to the Latin American country
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
