Gustavo Petro, a former leftist guerrilla, was elected president of Colombia after pledging to expand state control of the country’s economy to battle inequality and poverty.
BOGOTÁ, Colombia—Gustavo Petro, once a member of a leftist guerrilla group that fought the Colombian state, was on Sunday elected president after pledging to battle inequality and poverty andof a country that is Washington’s closest ally in Latin America.
A 62-year-old senator who in the 1970s and ’80s was in the M-19 rebel group, Mr. Petro is the first leftist elected president in Colombia, a milestone in a country that recently emerged from a long guerrilla conflict. Francia Márquez, a 40-year-old human-rights activist, will become vice president, the first Afro-Colombian and the second woman to hold that post.
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