Updated: Colombia elects former guerrilla Petro as first leftist president
Updated: 12.25pm (AEST)Bogata/Bucaramanga, Colombia Reuters 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. Petro beat construction magnate Rodolfo Hernandez with an unexpectedly wide margin of some 719,975 votes. The […]
Colombia’s Petro: firebrand former rebel vows profound change
Bogota, Colombia Reuters Gustavo Petro, who topped voting tallies with 40.8 per cent in Colombia’s first round of presidential elections on Sunday, has said his political awakening came when he watched his father weep over the death of Argentinian revolutionary Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara. The 62-year-old senator and former mayor, who was part of the M-19 […]