A former leftwing guerrilla – Gustavo Petro – has been elected to Colombia’s highest office. What is clear is that Petro has left his revolutionary past behind him. The group of which he was part – M-19 – negotiated pardons from the Colombian government for its members before becoming a political party in the late More
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