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...Presidents across Latin America, from Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico to Gustavo Petro in Colombia and Javier Milei in Argentina, are growing increasingly intolerant of independent courts, critical...
...Opposition leaders including former president Álvaro Uribe attacked Petro and his reform plans....
...Mexico’s central bank, which has had a new governor Victoria Rodríguez Ceja since last year, has also proved to be more hawkish than many expected....
...ceremony will take place in Bogotá that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago: outside the presidential palace, the top brass of Colombia’s armed forces will stand before former leftwing guerrilla Gustavo...
...Three years after Chavéz came to power, Colombia elected the hawkish rightwing president Álvaro Uribe, who cracked down on leftwing guerrilla groups that had Chavez’s support....
...Leftwinger Gustavo Petro won an emphatic victory in a Colombian primary election on Sunday, confirming he is the man to beat in this year’s presidential vote, while his coalition did well in legislative...
...But in 2002-10 Alvaro Uribe, a conservative president, waged a merciless war on the guerrillas, forcing them to the negotiating table....
...The leftwing candidate, Gustavo Petro, who came second to Duque four years ago, leads most polls....
...But radical leftist candidate Gustavo Petro, who finished second in the 2018 election, is determined to run again....
...There was no second referendum, and those who voted No — led by the country’s combative former president and scourge of the Farc, Álvaro Uribe — have always felt their opinion was ignored....
...She predicted that hard-left leader Gustavo Petro would be among the main beneficiaries, as the country radicalised over the fate of Mr Uribe. The storm comes at the worst possible time....
...On the right, much will depend on whom Álvaro Uribe, the powerful former president and standard bearer of Colombian conservatism, anoints as his chosen candidate....
...For once, former president Álvaro Uribe did not need to be in the political hothouse of Bogotá. His candidate for the presidency, Iván Duque, was doing fine without him....
...Crucially, he has the backing of Álvaro Uribe, Colombia’s former president and the standard-bearer of the right....
...But that is exactly what Colombia’s Gustavo Petro, a leftwing former guerrilla, is proposing with his plans to overturn the country’s reliance on hydrocarbons — a policy that is resonating with young voters...
...With 98 per cent of the ballot counted, Mr Duque had 54 per cent of the vote, giving him an unassailable lead over his only rival, former leftwing guerrilla Gustavo Petro, who had 41.8 per cent....
...Polls suggest Mr Duque has around 36 per cent support, not enough to win outright on Sunday but enough to propel him to a June 17 run-off vote, where simulations suggest he would then beat Gustavo Petro,...
...Mr Duque, a protégé of former president and strongman Alvaro Uribe, delivered a populist discourse from the right....
...On the same day, at the opposite end of the country, a crowd of students hurled missiles and insults at rightist former president Álvaro Uribe as he made a campaign speech. Mounted police moved in....
...But Mr Duque’s main lure for many voters is his political mentor Álvaro Uribe....
...Meanwhile, Gustavo Petro, a leftist former mayor of Bogotá who is running for president, says he has been slandered by claims he would expropriate Colombian businesses if elected....
...Mr Duque, 41, also won a clear mandate, with 53 per cent of the vote, and his opponent Gustavo Petro, a leftist former Bogotá mayor, ceded the race, ungracefully but without argument....
...The party of former president Álvaro Uribe, a standard-bearer of Colombian conservatism, emerged as the largest party in the upper house and the second-largest in the lower....
...Ivan Duque, 41, a protege of former President Alvaro Uribe, comfortably leads polls with 34% of the vote....
...And, for me, Gustavo Petro is its leader.”...
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