{"id":215469,"date":"2022-06-20T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=215469"},"modified":"2022-06-20T07:46:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T06:46:24","slug":"gustavo-petro-wins-colombian-election-makes-history-as-countrys-first-leftist-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/06\/gustavo-petro-wins-colombian-election-makes-history-as-countrys-first-leftist-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Gustavo Petro Wins Colombian Election, Makes History as Country\u2019s First Leftist President"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>20 Jun 2022 &#8211; <em>A former rebel and longtime legislator won Colombia\u2019s presidential election yesterday, galvanizing voters frustrated by decades of poverty and inequality under conservative leaders.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_215470\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Gustavo-Petro-Francia-Marquez-elections-Bogota-Colombia-left.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-215470\" class=\"wp-image-215470\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Gustavo-Petro-Francia-Marquez-elections-Bogota-Colombia-left-1024x683.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Gustavo-Petro-Francia-Marquez-elections-Bogota-Colombia-left-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Gustavo-Petro-Francia-Marquez-elections-Bogota-Colombia-left-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Gustavo-Petro-Francia-Marquez-elections-Bogota-Colombia-left-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Gustavo-Petro-Francia-Marquez-elections-Bogota-Colombia-left-1536x1025.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Gustavo-Petro-Francia-Marquez-elections-Bogota-Colombia-left.webp 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-215470\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gustavo Petro and Francia M\u00e1rquez celebrating after winning the elections on Sunday in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia. Credit&#8230;Federico Rios for The New York Times<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Here\u2019s What You Need to Know:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/colombia-election-results#gustavo-petro-colombia-election\" >Gustavo Petro wins the Colombian election, becoming the country\u2019s first leftist president.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/colombia-election-results#petro-supporters-celebrate-a-historic-win-while-those-for-hernandez-grapple-with-uncertainty\" >Petro supporters celebrate a historic win, while those for Hern\u00e1ndez grapple with uncertainty.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/colombia-election-results#will-gustavo-petro-become-colombias-first-leftist-leader\" >Gustavo Petro, a former rebel, has promised to transform Colombia\u2019s economic system.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/colombia-election-results#who-is-gustavo-petro\" >Before he was a politician, Gustavo Petro was part of an urban guerrilla group.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/colombia-election-results#francia-marquez-vice-president-colombia\" >Francia M\u00e1rquez \u2014 a former housekeeper and activist \u2014 is Colombia\u2019s first Black vice president.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/colombia-election-results#colombias-runoff-vote-could-reshape-americas-regional-policy\" >Colombia\u2019s runoff vote could reshape America\u2019s regional policy.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/colombia-election-results#why-rodolfo-hernandez-has-offended-some-women-while-others-defend-him\" >Why Rodolfo Hern\u00e1ndez has offended some women while others defend him.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/colombia-election-results#how-petro-is-trying-to-appeal-to-women-in-his-bid-to-capture-the-presidency\" >How Petro is trying to appeal to women in his bid to capture the presidency.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>**********************<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"\" role=\"article\" aria-posinset=\"15\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" aria-live=\"off\" aria-labelledby=\"post-title-QXJ0aWNsZTpueXQ6Ly9hcnRpY2xlLzY1OGNiNTQxLTBlNWUtNWIyZS1hNDZhLWIwMjdlMWY3NTMwOQ==\">\n<div class=\"live-blog-post css-1bbpn10\" data-testid=\"live-blog-post\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/colombia-election-results#gustavo-petro-colombia-election\" data-source-id=\"100000008403074\">\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">For the first time, Colombia will have a leftist president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/26\/world\/americas\/colombia-presidential-election-gustavo-petro.html\" class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" >Gustavo Petro<\/a>, a former rebel and a longtime senator who has pledged to transform the country\u2019s economic system, has won Sunday\u2019s election, according to preliminary results, setting the third largest nation in Latin America on a radically new path.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Petro, 62, received more than 50 percent of the vote, with more than 99 percent counted Sunday evening. His opponent, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/15\/world\/americas\/rodolfo-hernandez-colombia-election.html\" class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" >Rodolfo Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a>, a construction magnate who had energized the country with a scorched-earth anti-corruption platform, just over 47 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Shortly after the vote, Mr. Hern\u00e1ndez conceded to Mr. Petro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cColombians, today the majority of citizens have chosen the other candidate,\u201d he told his supporters in Bucaramanga. \u201cAs I said during the campaign, I accept the results of this election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Just over 58 percent of Colombia\u2019s 39 million voters turned out to cast a ballot, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/resultados.registraduria.gov.co\/presidente\/0\/colombia\" class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official figures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Petro\u2019s 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 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/18\/world\/americas\/colombia-protests-what-to-know.html\" class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" >sent hundreds of thousands of people<\/a> to demonstrate in the streets last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe entire country is begging for change,\u201d said Fernando Posada, a Colombian political scientist, \u201cand that is absolutely clear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The win is all the more significant because of the country\u2019s history. For decades, the government fought a brutal leftist insurgency known as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, with the stigma from the conflict making it difficult for a legitimate left to flourish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">But the FARC signed a peace deal with the government in 2016, laying down their arms and opening space for a broader political discourse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Petro had been <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/05\/29\/world\/colombia-election-results?smid=url-share#before-he-was-a-politician-gustavo-petro-was-part-of-an-urban-guerrilla-group\" class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" >part of a different rebel group<\/a>, called the M-19, which demobilized in 1990, and became a political party that helped rewrite the country\u2019s constitution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Both Mr. Petro and Mr. Hern\u00e1ndez beat Federico Guti\u00e9rrez, a former big city mayor backed by the conservative elite, in a first round of voting on May 29, sending them to a runoff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Both men had billed themselves as anti-establishment candidates, saying they were running against a political class that had controlled the country for generations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Among the factors that most distinguished them was how they viewed the root of the country\u2019s problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Petro believes the economic system is broken, overly reliant on oil export and a flourishing and illegal cocaine business that he said has made the rich richer and poor poorer. He is calling for a halt to all new oil exploration, a shift to developing other industries, and an expansion of social programs, while imposing higher taxes on the rich.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhat we have today is the result of what I call \u2018the depletion of the model,\u2019\u201d Mr. Petro said in an interview, referring to the current economic system. \u201cThe end result is a brutal poverty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">His ambitious economic plan has, however, raised concerns. One former finance minister <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jcecheverrycol\/status\/1462452446354157572\" class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">called<\/a> his energy plan \u201ceconomic suicide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Petro will take office in August, and will face pressing issues with global repercussions: Lack of opportunity and rising <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/20\/world\/americas\/colombia-comandos-armed-groups.html\" class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" >violence<\/a>, which have prompted record numbers of Colombians to migrate to the United States in recent months; high levels of deforestation in the Colombian Amazon, a critical buffer against climate change; and growing threats to democracy, part of a trend around the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">He will face a deeply polarized society where polls show growing distrust in almost all major institutions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Petro could also reshape Colombia\u2019s relationship with the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">For decades, Colombia has been Washington\u2019s strongest ally in Latin America, forming the cornerstone of its security policy in the region. During his campaign, Mr. Petro promised to reassess that relationship, including crucial collaborations on drugs, Venezuela and trade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">In the interview, Mr. Petro said his relationship with the United States would focus on working together to tackle climate change, specifically halting the rapid erosion of the Amazon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere is a point of dialogue there,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause saving the Amazon rainforest involves some instruments, some programs, that do not exist today, at least not with respect to the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-1cvg7p1 etfikam0\">Megan Janetsky contributed reporting from Bucaramanga, Colombia, and Sof\u00eda Villamil and Genevieve Glatsky contributed reporting from Bogot\u00e1.<\/p>\n<div class=\"live-blog-post-signed-bylines css-j3uhc5\">\n<p class=\"css-e9nh73 e1jsehar1\"><span class=\"byline-prefix\">\u2014 <\/span><span class=\"css-1baulvz last-byline\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/julie-turkewitz\" class=\"css-n8ff4n e1jsehar0\" >Julie Turkewitz<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" role=\"article\" aria-posinset=\"14\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" aria-live=\"off\" aria-labelledby=\"post-title-QXJ0aWNsZTpueXQ6Ly9hcnRpY2xlLzEyYmM3MmRkLWFjZDMtNWVhMS1iYjg1LWY3NGI5Zjg4OTJkMw==\">\n<div class=\"live-blog-post css-1bbpn10\" data-testid=\"live-blog-post\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/colombia-election-results#petro-supporters-celebrate-a-historic-win-while-those-for-hernandez-grapple-with-uncertainty\" data-source-id=\"100000008406706\">\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"petro-supporters-celebrate-a-historic-win-while-those-for-hernandez-grapple-with-uncertainty\" class=\"css-608m5d\">**********************<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"live-blog-post-headline css-1yyl602\">\n<h2 id=\"post-title-QXJ0aWNsZTpueXQ6Ly9hcnRpY2xlLzEyYmM3MmRkLWFjZDMtNWVhMS1iYjg1LWY3NGI5Zjg4OTJkMw==\" class=\"css-1ehbqjz eoo0vm40\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/colombia-election-results#petro-supporters-celebrate-a-historic-win-while-those-for-hernandez-grapple-with-uncertainty\" class=\"css-etxl5s\" >Petro supporters celebrate a historic win, while those for Hern\u00e1ndez grapple with uncertainty.<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-79elbk\" data-testid=\"photoviewer-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"css-1a48zt4 e11si9ry5\" style=\"text-align: center;\" data-testid=\"photoviewer-children\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-large css-1ef8w8q e1g7ppur0\" role=\"group\" aria-label=\"media\">\n<div class=\"css-1xdhyk6 erfvjey0\">\n<div class=\"css-zm41gc\" data-testid=\"lazy-image\">\n<div data-testid=\"lazyimage-container\"><picture class=\"css-1j5kxti\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/19colombia-election-victory-speech\/19colombia-election-victory-speech-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale&amp;width=600\" media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 3),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 3dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 288dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/19colombia-election-victory-speech\/19colombia-election-victory-speech-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale&amp;width=1200\" media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 2dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 192dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/19colombia-election-victory-speech\/19colombia-election-victory-speech-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale&amp;width=1800\" media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 1),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 1dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 96dpi)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"css-1m50asq aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/19colombia-election-victory-speech\/merlin_208826589_a4726d6b-9103-4b93-ae08-3d3fb1d99eda-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale\" sizes=\"((min-width: 600px) and (max-width: 1004px)) 84vw, (min-width: 1005px) 80vw, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/19colombia-election-victory-speech\/merlin_208826589_a4726d6b-9103-4b93-ae08-3d3fb1d99eda-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp 600w,https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/19colombia-election-victory-speech\/merlin_208826589_a4726d6b-9103-4b93-ae08-3d3fb1d99eda-jumbo.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp 1024w,https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/19colombia-election-victory-speech\/merlin_208826589_a4726d6b-9103-4b93-ae08-3d3fb1d99eda-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp 2048w\" alt=\"Gustavo Petro celebrating after winning Colombia\u2019s presidential election on Sunday, becoming the first leftist president in the country\u2019s history.\" \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"css-vwjwk3 ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Gustavo Petro celebrating after winning Colombia\u2019s presidential election on Sunday, becoming the first leftist president in the country\u2019s history.<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Federico Rios for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-h8zxow e11si9ry2\" data-testid=\"placeholder\">\n<div class=\"css-tux0zj e11si9ry3\" data-testid=\"photoviewer-overlay\">\n<div data-testid=\"lazyimage-container\">Following Gustavo Petro\u2019s win in Colombia\u2019s presidential election on Sunday, thousands of people gathered outside the music arena in Bogot\u00e1 where he planned to celebrate his victory. Many of them chanted that Uribismo, the conservative political movement that dominated the country for a generation, had died.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" role=\"article\" aria-posinset=\"14\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" aria-live=\"off\" aria-labelledby=\"post-title-QXJ0aWNsZTpueXQ6Ly9hcnRpY2xlLzEyYmM3MmRkLWFjZDMtNWVhMS1iYjg1LWY3NGI5Zjg4OTJkMw==\">\n<div class=\"live-blog-post css-1bbpn10\" data-testid=\"live-blog-post\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/colombia-election-results#petro-supporters-celebrate-a-historic-win-while-those-for-hernandez-grapple-with-uncertainty\" data-source-id=\"100000008406706\">\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The capital\u2019s streets were filled with the sound of honking cars and motorcycles as drivers rolled down their windows and cheered, and a smattering of fireworks filled the cloudy evening skies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Inside the arena, supporters with Colombian flags wrapped around their shoulders shouted, \u201cyes he could, yes he could!\u201d Party lights flashed. Supporters jumped up and down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">In the rafters, a banner with red lettering stretched across dozens of seats: \u201cThe people are bigger than their leaders,\u201d it read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Petro\u2019s speech was preceded by the entrance of the Indigenous guard, a traditional security unit whose members hold staffs meant to represent peace and strength.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Petro took the stage flanked by his vice-presidential pick, Francia M\u00e1rquez, and three of his children. The packed stadium went wild, with people standing on chairs and holding phones aloft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis story that we are writing today is a new story for Colombia, for Latin America, for the world,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are not going to betray this electorate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">He pledged to govern with what he has called \u201cthe politics of love,\u201d based on hope, dialogue and understanding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">About 250 miles north of Bogot\u00e1, chants of \u201cyes we can,\u201d echoing through the streets, faded to a sad silence in Rodolfo Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s hometown, Bucaramanga, as the election results rolled in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Supporters left blue and red \u201cRodolfo\u201d signs scattered across the concrete ground, and let bunches of campaign balloons fly into the sky, signaling the end of a quick but feverish campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">As supporters trickled out of Mr. Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s campaign event, a 46-year-old shoe vendor, Omar Quintero, stood to the side in a bright yellow Colombian soccer jersey sadly smoking a cigarette.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cTo me, this means we are under the rule of the left and that is what we didn\u2019t want in Colombia,\u201d Mr. Quintero said. \u201cThis is a new experience and an uncertainty because we don\u2019t know what will happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">He said that while he worries, he also hopes Mr. Petro follows through on his anti-corruption message, something shared with Mr. Hern\u00e1ndez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Shortly after the election results were announced, Mr. Hern\u00e1ndez conceded to Mr. Petro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cColombians, today the majority of citizens have chosen the other candidate,\u201d he said. \u201cAs I said during the campaign, I accept the results of this election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Gloria Jaime Sanchez, 47, wore a hat with the candidate\u2019s face on it, and a dozen \u201cRodolfo\u201d buttons pinned to her shirt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">She said she woke up excited and hopeful that Mr. Hern\u00e1ndez, who once governed her city, would win the election. But now she said she felt a sense of dread.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cWith this gentleman, I am not in the spirit. I am not in the mood. I\u2019m very sad,\u201d she said, walking off with a Colombian flag draped over one shoulder.<\/p>\n<div class=\"live-blog-post-signed-bylines css-j3uhc5\">\n<p class=\"css-e9nh73 e1jsehar1\"><span class=\"byline-prefix\">\u2014 <\/span><span class=\"css-1baulvz\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/julie-turkewitz\" class=\"css-n8ff4n e1jsehar0\" >Julie Turkewitz<\/a><\/span> and <span class=\"css-1baulvz last-byline\">Megan Janetsky<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"\" role=\"article\" aria-posinset=\"13\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" aria-live=\"off\" aria-labelledby=\"post-title-region2\">**********************<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"\" role=\"article\" aria-posinset=\"11\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" aria-live=\"off\" aria-labelledby=\"post-title-QXJ0aWNsZTpueXQ6Ly9hcnRpY2xlLzNmNWVhZmQ3LWUyZWMtNWU3Yy1iNzRhLTVjNTk0NWE5MmM3Yg==\">\n<div class=\"live-blog-post css-1bbpn10\" data-testid=\"live-blog-post\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/colombia-election-results#rodolfo-hernandez-has-built-his-popularity-on-tiktok-videos-and-an-unconventional-campaign-could-he-win\" data-source-id=\"100000008388487\">\n<div class=\"live-blog-post-headline css-1yyl602\">\n<h2 id=\"post-title-QXJ0aWNsZTpueXQ6Ly9hcnRpY2xlLzNmNWVhZmQ3LWUyZWMtNWU3Yy1iNzRhLTVjNTk0NWE5MmM3Yg==\" class=\"css-1ehbqjz eoo0vm40\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/colombia-election-results#rodolfo-hernandez-has-built-his-popularity-on-tiktok-videos-and-an-unconventional-campaign-could-he-win\" class=\"css-etxl5s\" >Rodolfo Hern\u00e1ndez built his popularity on TikTok videos and an unconventional campaign.<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-79elbk\" data-testid=\"photoviewer-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"css-1a48zt4 e11si9ry5\" style=\"text-align: center;\" data-testid=\"photoviewer-children\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-large css-1ef8w8q e1g7ppur0\" role=\"group\" aria-label=\"media\">\n<div class=\"css-1xdhyk6 erfvjey0\">\n<div class=\"css-zm41gc\" data-testid=\"lazy-image\">\n<div data-testid=\"lazyimage-container\"><picture class=\"css-1j5kxti\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/19colombia-election-rodolfo-profile-version2\/19colombia-election-rodolfo-profile-version2-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale&amp;width=600\" media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 3),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 3dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 288dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/19colombia-election-rodolfo-profile-version2\/19colombia-election-rodolfo-profile-version2-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale&amp;width=1200\" media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 2dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 192dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/19colombia-election-rodolfo-profile-version2\/19colombia-election-rodolfo-profile-version2-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale&amp;width=1800\" media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 1),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 1dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 96dpi)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"css-1m50asq aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/19colombia-election-rodolfo-profile-version2\/merlin_208795446_da61465e-9ad5-4198-8ca4-3a7085b0e5ee-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale\" sizes=\"((min-width: 600px) and (max-width: 1004px)) 84vw, (min-width: 1005px) 80vw, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/19colombia-election-rodolfo-profile-version2\/merlin_208795446_da61465e-9ad5-4198-8ca4-3a7085b0e5ee-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp 600w,https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/19colombia-election-rodolfo-profile-version2\/merlin_208795446_da61465e-9ad5-4198-8ca4-3a7085b0e5ee-jumbo.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp 1024w,https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/19colombia-election-rodolfo-profile-version2\/merlin_208795446_da61465e-9ad5-4198-8ca4-3a7085b0e5ee-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp 2048w\" alt=\"The Colombian presidential candidate Rodolfo Hern\u00e1ndez outside a voting site in Bucaramanga, Colombia, on Sunday.\" \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"css-vwjwk3 ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\" aria-hidden=\"true\">The Colombian presidential candidate Rodolfo Hern\u00e1ndez outside a voting site in Bucaramanga, Colombia, on Sunday.<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Nathalia Angarita for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-h8zxow e11si9ry2\" data-testid=\"placeholder\">\n<div class=\"css-tux0zj e11si9ry3\" data-testid=\"photoviewer-overlay\">\n<div class=\"css-cvn7ec e11si9ry4\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-zm41gc\" data-testid=\"lazy-image\">\n<div data-testid=\"lazyimage-container\"><picture class=\"css-1j5kxti\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/19colombia-election-rodolfo-profile-version2\/19colombia-election-rodolfo-profile-version2-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale&amp;width=600\" media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 3),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 3dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 288dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/19colombia-election-rodolfo-profile-version2\/19colombia-election-rodolfo-profile-version2-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale&amp;width=1200\" media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 2dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 192dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/19colombia-election-rodolfo-profile-version2\/19colombia-election-rodolfo-profile-version2-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale&amp;width=1800\" media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 1),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 1dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 96dpi)\" \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" role=\"article\" aria-posinset=\"11\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" aria-live=\"off\" aria-labelledby=\"post-title-QXJ0aWNsZTpueXQ6Ly9hcnRpY2xlLzNmNWVhZmQ3LWUyZWMtNWU3Yy1iNzRhLTVjNTk0NWE5MmM3Yg==\">\n<div class=\"live-blog-post css-1bbpn10\" data-testid=\"live-blog-post\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/colombia-election-results#rodolfo-hernandez-has-built-his-popularity-on-tiktok-videos-and-an-unconventional-campaign-could-he-win\" data-source-id=\"100000008388487\">\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">As mayor, he called himself \u201cthe king,\u201d punched a councilman who offended him and told a city employee pushing him to follow the rules that he\u2019d wipe his own buttocks with the law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Rodolfo Hern\u00e1ndez, a 77-year-old businessman and former mayor, emerged as Colombia\u2019s most disruptive presidential candidate in decades, electrifying voters with a single-issue \u201cdrain the swamp\u201d message amplified by a team of social media wizards who have made him a TikTok star, allowing him to circumvent the trappings of conventional campaigns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">During the campaign, Mr. Hern\u00e1ndez avoided most debates and held few public events, favoring interviews with friendly media and live streams run by his allies. Yet he energized broad swaths of the electorate, with his advisers saying that he has understood the moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">He was one of two remaining candidates in Sunday\u2019s election for president of the third largest nation in Latin America, with the winner taking control at a pivotal moment in the country\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhat the Colombian people really want is to rescue the entire public administration from the clutches of politicians,\u201d he told The New York Times. \u201cI embody that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The Trump-like figure was dismissive of his tendency to offend, including calling Venezuelan women a \u201cfactory for making poor children\u201d and declaring himself a follower of the \u201cgreat German thinker\u201d Adolf Hitler.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cI say what I feel,\u201d Mr. Hern\u00e1ndez said. \u201cI\u2019m not interested in the aftereffect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Still, he has clarified that he meant to say Albert Einstein.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">As a candidate, Mr. Hern\u00e1ndez promoted himself as a paragon of democracy, a successful businessman who makes good on promises and cares for the poor. But a trip to Bucaramanga, a mountain-fringed city where he built his empire and once served as mayor, reveals a different picture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s supporters describe him as a savior who erased the city\u2019s deficit, renegotiated contracts to benefit taxpayers and broke a cycle of political favors that had turned Bucaramanga into a capital of corruption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">His critics called him a danger to democracy, an evangelist of a brutal capitalism that would ruin the nation and a man with few firm policy ideas who would do whatever it took to get his way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Today, Mr. Hern\u00e1ndez faces corruption charges in that case, accused of pushing subordinates to ensure a specific company won a deal with the city. According to the inspector general\u2019s office, that contract could have earned his son significant money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s trial begins July 21. He has said he is innocent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cI didn\u2019t steal anything,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s why I\u2019m calm, with a clear conscience.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-1cvg7p1 etfikam0\">Carlos Buitrago contributed reporting from Bucaramanga and Piedecuesta, and Genevieve Glatsky from Bogot\u00e1.<\/p>\n<div class=\"live-blog-post-signed-bylines css-j3uhc5\">\n<p class=\"css-e9nh73 e1jsehar1\"><span class=\"byline-prefix\">\u2014 <\/span><span class=\"css-1baulvz last-byline\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/julie-turkewitz\" class=\"css-n8ff4n e1jsehar0\" >Julie Turkewitz<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>**********************<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"live-blog-post-content related-links-block css-1fl6w2g epkadsg3\">\n<div class=\"css-1qpc31g epkadsg0\">WHO IS HE? <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/15\/world\/americas\/rodolfo-hernandez-colombia-election.html?action=click&amp;module=RelatedLinks&amp;pgtype=Article\" class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" >The TikTok Star and Political Chameleon Vying for Colombia\u2019s Presidency<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" role=\"article\" aria-posinset=\"10\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" aria-live=\"off\" aria-labelledby=\"post-title-QXJ0aWNsZTpueXQ6Ly9hcnRpY2xlLzc4MzEzMmVhLWUwNDEtNTc0NC1hNDdiLTVhMDRjN2NkZDJmNQ==\">\n<div class=\"live-blog-post css-1bbpn10\" data-testid=\"live-blog-post\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/colombia-election-results#will-gustavo-petro-become-colombias-first-leftist-leader\" data-source-id=\"100000008388440\">\n<div class=\"live-blog-post-headline css-1yyl602\">\n<h2 id=\"post-title-QXJ0aWNsZTpueXQ6Ly9hcnRpY2xlLzc4MzEzMmVhLWUwNDEtNTc0NC1hNDdiLTVhMDRjN2NkZDJmNQ==\" class=\"css-1ehbqjz eoo0vm40\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/colombia-election-results#will-gustavo-petro-become-colombias-first-leftist-leader\" class=\"css-etxl5s\" >Gustavo Petro, a former rebel, has promised to transform Colombia\u2019s economic system.<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-79elbk\" data-testid=\"photoviewer-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"css-1a48zt4 e11si9ry5\" style=\"text-align: center;\" data-testid=\"photoviewer-children\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-large css-1ef8w8q e1g7ppur0\" role=\"group\" aria-label=\"media\">\n<div class=\"css-1xdhyk6 erfvjey0\">\n<div class=\"css-zm41gc\" data-testid=\"lazy-image\">\n<div data-testid=\"lazyimage-container\"><picture class=\"css-1j5kxti\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/05\/29\/world\/29colombia-elections-youth-vote\/29colombia-elections-democracy-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale&amp;width=600\" media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 3),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 3dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 288dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/05\/29\/world\/29colombia-elections-youth-vote\/29colombia-elections-democracy-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale&amp;width=1200\" media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 2dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 192dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/05\/29\/world\/29colombia-elections-youth-vote\/29colombia-elections-democracy-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale&amp;width=1800\" media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 1),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 1dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 96dpi)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"css-1m50asq aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/05\/29\/world\/29colombia-elections-youth-vote\/merlin_206907264_a024b3d8-d5d3-4724-8b88-e34547ac8c19-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale\" sizes=\"((min-width: 600px) and (max-width: 1004px)) 84vw, (min-width: 1005px) 80vw, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/05\/29\/world\/29colombia-elections-youth-vote\/merlin_206907264_a024b3d8-d5d3-4724-8b88-e34547ac8c19-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp 600w,https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/05\/29\/world\/29colombia-elections-youth-vote\/merlin_206907264_a024b3d8-d5d3-4724-8b88-e34547ac8c19-jumbo.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp 1024w,https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/05\/29\/world\/29colombia-elections-youth-vote\/merlin_206907264_a024b3d8-d5d3-4724-8b88-e34547ac8c19-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp 2048w\" alt=\"There are now nearly nine million Colombian voters 28 or younger, the most in history, and they represent a quarter of the electorate. \" \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"css-vwjwk3 ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\" aria-hidden=\"true\">There are now nearly nine million Colombian voters 28 or younger, the most in history, and they represent a quarter of the electorate.<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Federico Rios for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-h8zxow e11si9ry2\" data-testid=\"placeholder\">\n<div class=\"css-tux0zj e11si9ry3\" data-testid=\"photoviewer-overlay\">\n<div data-testid=\"lazyimage-container\">After an improbable rise from clandestine rebel to Bogot\u00e1 mayor and bullish face of the Colombian opposition, Gustavo Petro became the country\u2019s first leftist president, a watershed moment for one of the most politically conservative societies in Latin America.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" role=\"article\" aria-posinset=\"10\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" aria-live=\"off\" aria-labelledby=\"post-title-QXJ0aWNsZTpueXQ6Ly9hcnRpY2xlLzc4MzEzMmVhLWUwNDEtNTc0NC1hNDdiLTVhMDRjN2NkZDJmNQ==\">\n<div class=\"live-blog-post css-1bbpn10\" data-testid=\"live-blog-post\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/colombia-election-results#will-gustavo-petro-become-colombias-first-leftist-leader\" data-source-id=\"100000008388440\">\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">And his ascent was, in no small part, propelled by the biggest, loudest and possibly angriest youth electorate in Colombia\u2019s history, demanding the transformation of a country long cleaved by deep social and racial inequality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">There are now nearly nine million Colombian voters 28 or younger, the most in history, and a quarter of the electorate. They are restive, raised on promises of higher education and good jobs, disillusioned by current prospects, more digitally connected and arguably more empowered than any previous generation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Today\u2019s younger generation is grappling with 10 percent annual inflation, a 20 percent youth unemployment rate and a 40 percent poverty rate. Many say they feel betrayed by decades of leaders who have promised opportunity but delivered little.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Young people led <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/18\/world\/americas\/colombia-protests-what-to-know.html\" class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" >anti-government protests<\/a> that filled the streets of Colombia last year, dominating the national conversation for weeks. At least 46 people died \u2014 many of them young, unarmed protesters and <a href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/colombia\/el-paro-nacional-2021-lecciones-aprendidas-para-el-ejercicio-del-derecho-de-reuni-n\" class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">many at the hands of the police<\/a> \u2014 in what was known as the \u201cnational strike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">In a June <a href=\"https:\/\/www.valoraanalitik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/020900220000-Informe-COLOMBIA-OPINA-13-2022.pdf\" class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">poll by the firm Invamer<\/a>, more than 68 percent of voters ages 18 to 24 and nearly 61 percent of voters ages 25 to 34 said they were planning to vote for Mr. Petro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">In contrast, just over 30 percent of people ages 18 to 24 and just over 36 percent ages 25 to 34 said they would vote for Mr. Hern\u00e1ndez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The election came at a difficult moment for the country. Polls show widespread dissatisfaction with the government of the current president, Iv\u00e1n Duque, and frustration over chronic <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/11\/world\/americas\/coronavirus-latin-america-inequality.html\" class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" >poverty, a widening income gap<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/20\/world\/americas\/colombia-comandos-armed-groups.html\" class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" >insecurity<\/a>, all of which have worsened during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Some analysts expected young people to vote in large numbers, energized not just by Mr. Petro but by his running mate, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/06\/world\/americas\/francia-marquez-colombia-vp.html\" class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" >Francia M\u00e1rquez<\/a>, 40, an environmental activist with a gender, race and class-conscious focus who will be the country\u2019s first Black vice president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe TikTok generation that is very connected to Francia, that is very connected to Petro, is going to be decisive,\u201d said Fernando Posada, 30, a political analyst.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">But many young voters were skeptical of Mr. Petro\u2019s ability to deliver on his promises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">In Fusagasug\u00e1, Nina Cruz, 27, a cafe worker, said Mr. Petro would fail Colombia\u2019s struggling families, and she was particularly repulsed by his past as a member of a leftist rebel group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The country has a long history of violent militias that claim to help the indigent \u2014 and end up terrorizing them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhat he is saying is: \u2018I\u2019m going to help the poor,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s a total lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"live-blog-post-signed-bylines css-j3uhc5\">\n<p class=\"css-e9nh73 e1jsehar1\"><span class=\"byline-prefix\">\u2014 <\/span><span class=\"css-1baulvz last-byline\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/julie-turkewitz\" class=\"css-n8ff4n e1jsehar0\" >Julie Turkewitz<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>**********************<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" role=\"article\" aria-posinset=\"7\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" aria-live=\"off\" aria-labelledby=\"post-title-QXJ0aWNsZTpueXQ6Ly9hcnRpY2xlLzg1MzY5NTMzLTNjZWItNWY0My04ZTRiLThkOWMwNzhlMDAzNQ==\">\n<div class=\"live-blog-post css-1bbpn10\" data-testid=\"live-blog-post\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/colombia-election-results#who-is-gustavo-petro\" data-source-id=\"100000008388447\">\n<div class=\"live-blog-post-headline css-1yyl602\">\n<h2 id=\"post-title-QXJ0aWNsZTpueXQ6Ly9hcnRpY2xlLzg1MzY5NTMzLTNjZWItNWY0My04ZTRiLThkOWMwNzhlMDAzNQ==\" class=\"css-1ehbqjz eoo0vm40\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/colombia-election-results#who-is-gustavo-petro\" class=\"css-etxl5s\" >Before he was a politician, Gustavo Petro was part of an urban guerrilla group.<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_215477\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Gustavo-Petro-left-president-Colombia.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-215477\" class=\"wp-image-215477\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Gustavo-Petro-left-president-Colombia-1024x683.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Gustavo-Petro-left-president-Colombia-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Gustavo-Petro-left-president-Colombia-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Gustavo-Petro-left-president-Colombia-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Gustavo-Petro-left-president-Colombia-1536x1024.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Gustavo-Petro-left-president-Colombia.webp 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-215477\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gustavo Petro last month in Santa Marta, Colombia.<br \/>Credit&#8230;Federico Rios for The New York Times<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-79elbk\" data-testid=\"photoviewer-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"css-1a48zt4 e11si9ry5\" style=\"text-align: center;\" data-testid=\"photoviewer-children\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-large css-1ef8w8q e1g7ppur0\" role=\"group\" aria-label=\"media\">\n<div class=\"css-1xdhyk6 erfvjey0\">\n<div class=\"css-zm41gc\" data-testid=\"lazy-image\">\n<div data-testid=\"lazyimage-container\"><picture class=\"css-1j5kxti\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/19colombia-election-petro-m19-2\/19colombia-election-petro-m19-2-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale&amp;width=600\" media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 3),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 3dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 288dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/19colombia-election-petro-m19-2\/19colombia-election-petro-m19-2-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale&amp;width=1200\" media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 2dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 192dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/19colombia-election-petro-m19-2\/19colombia-election-petro-m19-2-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale&amp;width=1800\" media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 1),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 1dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 96dpi)\" \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"css-vwjwk3 ewdxa0s0\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1vgtyyn e11si9ry2\" data-testid=\"placeholder\">\n<div class=\"css-tux0zj e11si9ry3\" data-testid=\"photoviewer-overlay\">\n<div class=\"css-1faqgcr e11si9ry4\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-zm41gc\" data-testid=\"lazy-image\">\n<div data-testid=\"lazyimage-container\"><picture class=\"css-1j5kxti\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/19colombia-election-petro-m19-2\/19colombia-election-petro-m19-2-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale&amp;width=600\" media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 3),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 3dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 288dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/19colombia-election-petro-m19-2\/19colombia-election-petro-m19-2-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale&amp;width=1200\" media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 2dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 192dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/19colombia-election-petro-m19-2\/19colombia-election-petro-m19-2-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale&amp;width=1800\" media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 1),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 1dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 96dpi)\" \/><\/picture>Long before <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/americas\/gustavo-petro-colombia-presidential-election.html\" class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" >Gustavo Petro<\/a> emerged as the apparently victorious leftist candidate for president, he was part of the M-19, an urban guerrilla group that sought to seize power through violence in the name of promoting social justice.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" role=\"article\" aria-posinset=\"7\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" aria-live=\"off\" aria-labelledby=\"post-title-QXJ0aWNsZTpueXQ6Ly9hcnRpY2xlLzg1MzY5NTMzLTNjZWItNWY0My04ZTRiLThkOWMwNzhlMDAzNQ==\">\n<div class=\"live-blog-post css-1bbpn10\" data-testid=\"live-blog-post\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/colombia-election-results#who-is-gustavo-petro\" data-source-id=\"100000008388447\">\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">For some Colombian voters, his past was a source of concern after decades of armed conflict. For others, it offered a sign of hope for one of most inequitable countries in Latin America.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The M-19 was born in 1970 as a response to alleged fraud in that year\u2019s presidential elections. It was far smaller than the country\u2019s main guerrilla force, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, which was Marxist and sought haven in Colombia\u2019s jungles and rural areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The M-19 was an urban military group formed by university students, activists and artists who wanted to topple a governing system they believed failed to bridge a chronic divide between the rich and the poor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe M-19 was born in arms to build a democracy,\u201d Mr. Petro told The New York Times in an interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">It originally tried to promote a Robin Hood image, robbing milk from supermarket trucks to distribute in poor neighborhoods and, in a symbolic act of rebellion, stole a sword from a museum that Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar used in Colombia\u2019s war for independence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Petro, 62, joined the group when he was 17 and an economics student, dismayed by the poverty he witnessed in the town where has living, outside Bogot\u00e1, the capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">While the M-19 was less brutal than other rebel groups, it did orchestrate what is considered one of the bloodiest acts in the country\u2019s recent history: the 1985 siege of Colombia\u2019s national judicial building that led to a battle with the police and the military, leaving 94 people dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The group also stole 5,000 weapons from the Colombian military and used kidnapping as a tactic to try to wrest concessions from the government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Petro, who spent 10 years in the M-19, largely stockpiled stolen weapons, said Sandra Borda, a political science professor at the University of the Andes in Bogot\u00e1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhat\u2019s key is that he wasn\u2019t part of the main circle who made the decisions in M-19. He was very young at that moment,\u201d she said. \u201cHe didn\u2019t participate in the most important operations of the M-19, the military operations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">At the time of the justice building takeover, Mr. Petro was in prison for his involvement with the group and he has described being beaten and electrocuted by the authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The group eventually demobilized in 1990, which was considered one of the most successful peace processes in the country\u2019s long history of conflict. It turned into a political party that helped rewrite the country\u2019s constitution to focus more on equality and human rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Petro ran for Senate as a member of the party, launching his political career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-1cvg7p1 etfikam0\">Sof\u00eda Villamil and Julie Turkewitz contributed reporting from Bogot\u00e1.<\/p>\n<div class=\"live-blog-post-signed-bylines css-j3uhc5\">\n<p class=\"css-e9nh73 e1jsehar1\"><span class=\"byline-prefix\">\u2014 <\/span><span class=\"css-1baulvz last-byline\">Megan Janetsky<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"\" role=\"article\" aria-posinset=\"6\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" aria-live=\"off\" aria-labelledby=\"post-title-ad2\">**********************<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"\" role=\"article\" aria-posinset=\"5\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" aria-live=\"off\" aria-labelledby=\"post-title-QXJ0aWNsZTpueXQ6Ly9hcnRpY2xlLzI4ZWJmNGEzLWNlYTQtNWJlZS1iMWM4LTJiNjE2YzAxYTczMQ==\">\n<div class=\"live-blog-post css-1bbpn10\" data-testid=\"live-blog-post\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/colombia-election-results#francia-marquez-vice-president-colombia\" data-source-id=\"100000008388444\">\n<div class=\"live-blog-post-headline css-1yyl602\">\n<h2 id=\"post-title-QXJ0aWNsZTpueXQ6Ly9hcnRpY2xlLzI4ZWJmNGEzLWNlYTQtNWJlZS1iMWM4LTJiNjE2YzAxYTczMQ==\" class=\"css-1ehbqjz eoo0vm40\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/colombia-election-results#francia-marquez-vice-president-colombia\" class=\"css-etxl5s\" >Francia M\u00e1rquez \u2014 a former housekeeper and activist \u2014 is Colombia\u2019s first Black vice president.<\/a><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_215475\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Francia-Marquez-vice-president-left-Colombia.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-215475\" class=\"wp-image-215475\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Francia-Marquez-vice-president-left-Colombia-300x200.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Francia-Marquez-vice-president-left-Colombia-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Francia-Marquez-vice-president-left-Colombia-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Francia-Marquez-vice-president-left-Colombia-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Francia-Marquez-vice-president-left-Colombia-1536x1024.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Francia-Marquez-vice-president-left-Colombia.webp 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-215475\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francia M\u00e1rquez, a vice presidential candidate from the mountainous department of Cauca in southwestern Colombia, has become a national phenomenon.<br \/>Credit&#8230;Federico Rios for The New York Times<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-79elbk\" data-testid=\"photoviewer-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"css-1a48zt4 e11si9ry5\" style=\"text-align: center;\" data-testid=\"photoviewer-children\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-large css-1ef8w8q e1g7ppur0\" role=\"group\" aria-label=\"media\">\n<div class=\"css-1xdhyk6 erfvjey0\">\n<div class=\"css-zm41gc\" data-testid=\"lazy-image\">\n<div data-testid=\"lazyimage-container\"><picture class=\"css-1j5kxti\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/05\/29\/world\/29colombia-election-francia\/29colombia-election-francia-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale&amp;width=600\" media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 3),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 3dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 288dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/05\/29\/world\/29colombia-election-francia\/29colombia-election-francia-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale&amp;width=1200\" media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 2dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 192dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/05\/29\/world\/29colombia-election-francia\/29colombia-election-francia-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale&amp;width=1800\" media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 1),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 1dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 96dpi)\" \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"css-vwjwk3 ewdxa0s0\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1vgtyyn e11si9ry2\" data-testid=\"placeholder\">\n<div class=\"css-tux0zj e11si9ry3\" data-testid=\"photoviewer-overlay\">\n<div data-testid=\"lazyimage-container\">For the first time in Colombia\u2019s history, a Black woman is close to the top of the executive branch.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" role=\"article\" aria-posinset=\"5\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" aria-live=\"off\" aria-labelledby=\"post-title-QXJ0aWNsZTpueXQ6Ly9hcnRpY2xlLzI4ZWJmNGEzLWNlYTQtNWJlZS1iMWM4LTJiNjE2YzAxYTczMQ==\">\n<div class=\"live-blog-post css-1bbpn10\" data-testid=\"live-blog-post\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/colombia-election-results#francia-marquez-vice-president-colombia\" data-source-id=\"100000008388444\">\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Francia M\u00e1rquez, an environmental activist from the mountainous department of Cauca in southwestern Colombia, has become a national phenomenon, mobilizing decades of voter frustration, and becoming the country\u2019s first Black vice president on Sunday, as the running mate to Gustavo Petro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The Petro-M\u00e1rquez ticket won Sunday\u2019s runoff election, according to preliminary results. Mr. Petro, a former rebel and longtime legislator, will become the country\u2019s first leftist president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The rise of Ms. M\u00e1rquez is significant not only because she is Black in a nation where Afro-Colombians are regularly subject to racism and must contend with structural barriers, but because she comes from poverty in a country where economic class so often defines a person\u2019s place in society. Most recent former presidents were educated abroad and are connected to the country\u2019s powerful families and kingmakers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Despite economic gains in recent decades, Colombia remains starkly unequal, a trend that has worsened during the pandemic, with Black, Indigenous and rural communities falling the farthest behind. Forty percent of the country lives in poverty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Ms. M\u00e1rquez, 40, chose to run for office, she said, \u201cbecause our governments have turned their backs on the people, and on justice and on peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">She grew up sleeping on a dirt floor in a region battered by violence related to the country\u2019s long internal conflict. She became pregnant at 16, went to work in the local gold mines to support her child, and eventually sought work as a live-in maid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">To a segment of Colombians who are clamoring for change and for more diverse representation, Ms. M\u00e1rquez is their champion. The question is whether the rest of the country is ready for her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Some critics have called her divisive, saying she is part of a leftist coalition that seeks to tear apart, instead of build upon, past norms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">She has also never held political office, and Sergio Guzm\u00e1n, director of Colombia Risk Analysis, a consulting firm, said that \u201cthere are a lot of questions as to whether Francia would be able to be commander in chief, if she would manage economic policy, or foreign policy, in a way that would provide continuity to the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Her more extreme opponents have taken direct aim at her with racist tropes, and criticize her class and political legitimacy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">But on the campaign trail, Ms. M\u00e1rquez\u2019s persistent, frank and biting analysis of the social disparities in Colombia cracked open a discussion about race and class in a manner rarely heard in the country\u2019s most public and powerful political circles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Those themes, \u201cmany in our society deny them, or treat them as minor,\u201d said Santiago Arboleda, a professor of Afro-Andean history at Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar Andean University. \u201cToday, they\u2019re on the front page.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/06\/19\/world\/colombia-election-results\" >Go to Original &#8211; nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 Jun 2022 &#8211; A former rebel and longtime legislator won Colombia\u2019s presidential election yesterday, galvanizing voters frustrated by decades of poverty and inequality under conservative leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":215470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[1661,276],"class_list":["post-215469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin-america-and-the-caribbean","tag-colombia","tag-democracy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}