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| Caribbean-Latin America |
| Colombia elects former rebel Gustavo Petro to become country's first leftist president |
| 2022-06-20 |
| [FOX] Former rebel Gustavo Petro is set to be Colombia's first leftist president after voters handed him a slim victory in Sunday's runoff election against Rodolfo Hernández, a political outsider and populist. Petro had garnered 50.47% of the votes to Hernandez's 47.25% on Sunday evening, according to preliminary results released by election authorities. "Today is a day of celebration for the people. Let them celebrate the first popular victory," Petro, a current senator and former mayor of Bogota, tweeted after the results came in. "May so many sufferings be cushioned in the joy that today floods the heart of the Homeland." |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #2 Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and now Columbia, gee, someone at the CIA and State Department might want to take a look at this. That old racist Monroe Doctrine was about our backyard that now seems to be more than a tad unfriendly. Just sayin perhaps ole Jimbo was on to something about paying attention in your own hemisphere? Maybe if we got their pro-nouns right and offered to send billions to pay for their government salaries we might get better illegals from them? |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2022-06-20 11:46 |
| #1 Aaaaand their last free election? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2022-06-20 10:57 |