Colombia Selects Candidates Who’ll Face Petro for Presidency
- Nation elects senate and lower house, and votes in primaries
- Vote comes a year after Colombia’s worst civil unrest in years
Gustavo Petro during a campaign rally in Bogota, on March 4.
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For months, Gustavo Petro, the former guerrilla and Bogota mayor, has been all the talk ahead of Colombia’s presidential elections. The rich fear him, while many of the poor love his promises to redistribute land and wealth.
Tonight, he will finally know who his opponents are, with just two months to go before the presidential vote.