Gustavo Petro will become the new president of the Colombian Republic on August 7, 2022. This is the first time that a man considered to be on the left becomes president of Colombia.
In a country that has lived through a civil war of more than 50 years with guerrillas such as the Farc, the M19 or the ELN (which is still active), being on the left has long meant aligning oneself alongside armed groups which, in their struggle against the State, practiced assassinations and kidnappings, financed by the cultivation of coca and the trafficking of precious metals.
Not a Colombian family has escaped the consequences of this war.
But the peace agreements with the Farc, signed in 2016, have finally allowed the guerrillas to no longer be the main subject of the presidential campaign.
Claiming to be on the left is no longer synonymous with being an accomplice of the guerrillas.
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