Colombia’s 2022 presidential election will have heightened measures given fears of violence and potential vandalism in Bogotá. Candidates Hernández and Petro to meet in a final debate.
Colombians have endured one of the dirtiest election campaigns in recent history, and will decide on June 19 whether the country makes lurch to the left with Petro or maintains stability with Rodolfo Hernández.
Colombia is set to redraw its political landscape with an election result that will reverberate across the hemisphere, and week after the US hosts its nineth Americas Summit.
The surge in popularity of the arch-conservative candidate Rodolfo Hernández has stunned Gustavo Petro. The leftist candidate now trails Hernández in a recent poll.
After promising to halt oil production in Colombia if elected president, candidate Gustavo Petro also warned of a possible end to coal exports given that the fuel is “worse than cocaine.”
With two weeks to go before Colombians elect their next president, a likely Petro victory has the business community on edge given the candidate’s socialist agenda and hard-left reforms.
Colombia enters the final month of a highly contested presidential election, amidst shifting geopolitical rivalries and candidates with opposing visions for the country’s future.
Two polls released over the weekend put Petro and Gutiérrez as the front runners who will contest the second round in Colombia’s presidential election.
In a debate with three Colombian presidential candidates, Ingrid Betancourt lashed-out at Gustavo Petro over corruption and his association with kidnappers.
The 2022 Colombian elections are fraught with disinformation and dysfunctional campaigns, maintaining Petro’s lead in the polls.
Venezuela’s former intel chief Hugo Carvajal presented a Spanish high evidence of illegal campaign financing by Maduro of South American left-wing politicians.
Left-wing Senator Gustavo Petro calls the Colombian Government a “dictatorship” and warns of “coup” after President Duque orders lifting of all road blockades.
The left-wing politician Gustavo Petro remains hospitalized in Florence, Italy, with coronavirus confirmed the family in a statement. Petro is a front-runner for the 2022 presidential election.
U.S President Donald Trump took advantage of his Hispanic audience in Miami to slam Juan Manuel Santos for “surrendering Colombia” to FARC.
The pandemic has shown a spirit of leadership and collaboration among many of Colombia’s public officials, while also exposing political opportunism and misinformation.
Venezuelan leader Juan Guaidó referred to Gustavo Petro, the socialist Senator and former Mayor of Bogotá, as an “accomplice of the Maduro dictatorship.”