What Colombia's Shift Left Means for America - OZY | A Modern Media Company
He’s the global left’s latest poster boy. Dressed in a bulletproof vest and standing behind a team of shield-wielding bodyguards, Gustavo Petro, the former guerilla turned senator and mayor, told Colombia’s voters that conservative governments failed the nation. On June 19, Petro was elected Colombia’s first leftist president. Francia Márquez, an environmental activist, became the country’s first Black vice president. Petro joins a growing “pink tide” that’s sweeping across Latin America, with leftist leaders in power in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Honduras, Mexico and Peru. Th...
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