Posted on 06/19/2022 4:15:32 PM PDT by FarCenter
For the first time, Colombia will have a leftist president.
Gustavo Petro, a former rebel and a longtime senator who has pledged to transform the country’s economic system, has won Sunday’s election, according to preliminary results, setting the third largest nation in Latin America on a radically new path.
Mr. Petro received more than 50 percent of the vote, with more than 99 percent counted Sunday evening. His opponent, Rodolfo Hernández, a construction magnate who had energized the country with a scorched-earth anti-corruption platform, just over 47 percent.
Shortly after the vote, Mr. Hernández conceded to Mr. Petro.
“Colombians, today the majority of citizens have chosen the other candidate,” he told his supporters in Bucaramanga. “As I said during the campaign, I accept the results of this election.”
Just over 58 percent of Colombia’s 39 million voters turned out to cast a ballot, according to official figures.
Mr. Petro’s victory reflects widespread discontent in Colombia, a country of 50 million, with poverty and inequality on the rise and widespread dissatisfaction with a lack of opportunity, issues that sent hundreds of thousands of people to demonstrate in the streets last year.
“The entire country is begging for change,” said Fernando Posada, a Colombian political scientist, “and that is absolutely clear.”
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Another Venezuela
Putin and Xi now have another arms client, so does Madoro. I am quite sure that Russia will sell him Venezuelian made AK rifles, and other toys. Also more ports for the Russians aand Chinese to base their navies.
How can they count votes in one day?
It’s like pre 1950 again. I wonder if we could
do that too if people would just vote correctly?
This guy is a Madoro/Castro flunkie. Pro Russian/Chinese.
Where’s Pinochet when they need him?
There goes another domino. Good thing we don’t depend upon any of SAmerica for anything other than coffee and chocolate.
Chocolate!
WAR!
Well you are about to get it good and hard.
Most likely brought to you by the CIA.
Well if Columbia was in trouble before; it’s up to its chin in it now.
Venezuela 2.0!
Talk about being blind, deaf and stupid.
The whole country is going for a Darwin Award.
God help us. In a year, two at most all of Columbia will be swarming across our border.
Heck, for that matter ALL of Central and South America is flooding in here.
Do you really think this was a fare election? really!
Goodbye Colombia!
You can now be part of the Venezuelan outcome for your choices.
“Gustavo Petro, a former rebel and a longtime senator who has pledged to transform the country’s economic system”
Oh boy, Colombia. Are you going to suffer
Biden is probably secretly happy along with communists everywhere.
He is exactly the kind of dumb ass, end of the bar blowhards I grew up with in Kearny, NJ, Hudson County. I came from a family of life long Democrats and I thought the Democrats were the 12 apostles.
Hudson County was, when I lived there was Democrat controlled since time began by such self seeking, incompetent and out right crooked louts Biden.
They have all the historical perspective and political intelligence of a curb stone but they know how to game the system and get rich doing it.
Anything else they know about the world couldn't fit on the head of a pin.
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