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COLOMBIA ELECTIONS 2022

Jubilant Gustavo Petro elected Colombia's first leftist president

20-06-2022 14:35 Ex-guerrilla Gustavo Petro elected Colombia's first ever left-wing president after defeating millionaire businessman rival Rodolfo Hernández in run-off.

Latin America

Ex-guerrilla takes on maverick in race to be Colombia's president

18-06-2022 01:20 A former leftist guerrilla and a millionaire businessman will go head-to-head on Sunday hoping to become the new president of Colombia.

Colombia Election 2022

Colombians set to vote in high stakes presidential run-off

17-06-2022 18:22 Colombians vote Sunday in a presidential run-off. Opinion polls have leftist Gustavo Petro and businessman Rodolfo Hernández neck-and-neck.

COLOMBIA ELECTIONS 2022

Colombian outsider makes run-off with real shot at presidency

31-05-2022 11:18 Rodolfo Hernández, who was little known at the start of the year, surged into Colombia’s presidential run-off – and he now has a real chance at winning against leftist rival Gustavo Petro.

BLOOMBERG

Colombia’s number one banker has no fear of leftist front-runner

19-05-2022 08:00 Luis Carlos Sarmiento Gutiérrez would figure to be one of the people fretting the most about the looming election of the first left-wing leader in Colombia’s modern history. But, at least publicly, he betrays little angst about the outcome of the vote this month.

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Esteban Bullrich: ‘When the future is uncertain, all you have is the present’

13-05-2022 12:21 Former senator and education minister Esteban Bullrich on being diagnosed with ALS, faith and why Argentina must overcome the ‘grieta’ rift that dominates the country’s politics.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

BLOOMBERG – INTERVIEW

Colombia presidential front-runner Gustavo Petro seeks global anti-oil bloc

17-01-2022 06:59 Colombia’s presidential front-runner Gustavo Petro is calling on ideological allies across Latin America and the world to join him in forming a new bloc to lead the economy away from fossil fuels.

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

José Mujica: ‘Things cannot function when one half of the country is against the other half’

22-10-2021 22:15 Former Uruguay president José ‘Pepe’ Mujica on heroes and leaders, fanaticism and feminism, Argentina and the River Plate and the meaning of his life.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

News of politics of life

Jubilant Gustavo Petro elected Colombia's first leftist president

Ex-guerrilla takes on maverick in race to be Colombia's president

Colombians set to vote in high stakes presidential run-off

Colombian outsider makes run-off with real shot at presidency

Colombia’s number one banker has no fear of leftist front-runner

Esteban Bullrich: ‘When the future is uncertain, all you have is the present’

Colombia presidential front-runner Gustavo Petro seeks global anti-oil bloc

José Mujica: ‘Things cannot function when one half of the country is against the other half’

Lucio Dupuy trial: Mother, partner found guilty of killing five-year-old

Hauke Hartmann: ‘In the last decade we have seen authoritarian populism emerge with tougher autocracies’

Argentina’s latest unorthodox tool to combat inflation: Artificial intelligence

Central Bank approves higher denomination 2,000-peso bill

Publisher brings LatAm's best lit to English-speaking audiences

El "cometa verde" visto desde Argentina, en su primera visita a la Tierra en 50.000 años

Impactante sismo en Turquía y Siria: se desplomaron edificios enteros y hay casi 100 muertos

Jorge Asís: “Massa y Larreta es casi como Thompson & Williams”

“En Dominique observo parecidos con Mónica Cahen D’Anvers”, explica Eduardo Metzger

Una niña encontró restos de dos gliptodontes, el animal prehistórico que captó la atención de Darwin