Who is Gustavo Petro and what is the change he proposes for Colombia?
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Gustavo Petro is the leftist candidate who seeks, for the third time, to reach the Presidency of Colombia.
In the first round of the presidential elections, Petro obtained more than 40% of the votes, passing to the second round, in which he will face the candidate Rodolfo Hernández.
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Petro, a left-wing politician, began his political life at a very early age, being a public servant as a councilor and representative, and later he was a guerrilla member of the M-19.
He has also been a representative to the Chamber for Bogotá and a senator, as well as mayor of Bogotá.
These are some data of the presidential candidate Gustavo Petro.
Personal information
Name:
Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego
Date of birth:
April 19, 1960.
Age:
62 years
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Place of birth:
Ciénaga de Oro, Córdoba, Colombia.
Father:
Gustavo Petro Sierra
Mother:
Clara Nubia Urrego
Partners:
Katia Burgos (separated).
Mary Luz Herrán (separated).
Verónica Alcocer (current)
Children:
Nicolás Petro Burgos, Andrés Petro Herrán, Andrea Petro, Sofía Petro and Antonella Petro Alcocer.
Education:
Externado University of Colombia, ESAP, Javeriana University, Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and University of Salamanca (Spain).
other facts
He was a guerrilla of the M-19.
He says that he was tortured by the Army and sentenced, by military criminal justice, to 18 months in prison.
His pseudonym as a guerrilla was "Comandante Aureliano", inspired by Aureliano Buendía, "the commander of a thousand lost battles", as he said, from
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez.
Chronology of Gustavo Petro
1980:
Representative of Zipaquirá, Cundinamarca.
1984 and 1986:
Councilor of Zipaquirá, Cundinamarca.
1990:
He signs the peace accords with the government of Belisario Betancourt as a member of the M-19 guerrilla.
What is the history of Gustavo Petro in the M-19 guerrilla?
1991-1994:
Representative to the Chamber for Cundinamarca for the Alianza Democrática party M-19.
1994-1996:
Diplomatic Attaché for Human Rights at the Colombian Embassy in Belgium.
1998-2006:
Representative to the Chamber for Bogotá with the Vía Alterna Movement.
2006-2010:
Senator for the Democratic Pole.
2010:
Candidate for the presidency for the Polo Democrático Alternativo.
He obtained 9.15% of the votes.
2012-2015:
He is elected Mayor of Bogotá.
2013:
The Attorney General dismisses him for 15 years to hold public office for handling a crisis related to the garbage collection system in Bogotá.
2014:
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered his reinstatement as mayor of Bogotá.
That year, the Superior Court of Bogotá ordered his return in response to the order of the Inter-American Court.
In April 2014, President Juan Manuel Santos restored Petro to his position.
2018:
He is the presidential candidate for Human Colombia.
In his second nomination for the Presidency, Petro is running for the Significant Movement of Citizens – Colombia Humana, and obtains more than 8 million votes.
He makes use of the Opposition Statute for the first time, so by coming second in the elections against Iván Duque, he returns to the Senate between 2018 and 2022.
March 2022
: Petro wins the internal consultations of the left-wing coalition with more than 4.4 million votes.
He becomes the presidential candidate of the Historical Pact.
Ten days later, Petro chooses Francia Márquez —a black leader, environmental activist and who was a pre-candidate in the consultation— as his vice-presidential ticket.
April 2022:
Petro says in a campaign closing ceremony in Barranquilla that "they plan to hit the elections" on May 29, by suspending the bodies that govern the electoral process in Colombia.
The candidate did not elaborate on his complaint or who would make the decision.
President Iván Duque said a day later that the presidential elections will not be suspended and denied that a coup was going to take place.
May 2022:
In the first round of the presidential elections, Petro obtains more than 40% of the votes, thus going to the second round in which he will face the candidate Rodolfo Hernández.
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