Decryption

Colombia consolidates Latin America's left turn

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Gustavo Petro (in the center) was elected president in Colombia, on June 19, 2022 in Bogota.

© AP/Fernando Vergara

By: Anne Corpet Follow

1 min

Last Sunday (June 19, 2022), Gustavo Petro won the presidential election in Colombia.

A historic victory in a country that has always been ruled by conservatives.

It confirms the push of the left on the Latin American continent since Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Bolivia, Honduras and Peru have also led left-wing elected representatives, and that according to the polls, c It is still the left that should prevail in Brazil next fall (2022) with the expected return of Lula to the presidency.

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Why this comeback of progressives on the continent?

Can the Latin American left unite?

Is this change likely to worry the United States?

Decryption with: 

- Olga Gonzalez,

sociologist, associate researcher at the University of Paris, specialist in Colombia, she wrote the post

- Jean-Jacques Kourliandsky

, associate researcher at

, director of the Latin American Observatory of the

author of

(Aube Editions - Jean-Jaurès Foundation). 

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