Colombia elects former guerrilla Petro as first leftist president

BOGOTA/BUCARAMANGA: Leftist Gustavo Petro, a former member of the M-19 guerrilla motion who has vowed profound social and financial change, received Colombia’s presidency on Sunday, the primary progressive to take action within the nation’s historical past.
Petro beat building magnate Rodolfo Hernandez with an unexpectedly huge margin of some 716,890 votes. The 2 had been technically tied in polling forward of the vote.