of the past century, Colombia was immune to the shifting tides of Latin American politics. During the 1960s and 1970s, when right-wing military dictatorships took power across the region, it had a restricted democracy in which two parties, the Liberals and Conservatives, agreed to share power every four years.
One of the few things that Mr Petro and Mr Hernández have in common is that they were lousy mayors. Both were suspended from office. Mr Petro, who ran Bogotá, the capital, from 2012 to 2015, was briefly removed in March 2014 after mishandling the municipal takeover of a private rubbish-collection service. He was reinstated a month later when the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that his dismissal had been unfair.
Mr Petro’s programme is more grandiose. While he also wants to increase tariffs and renegotiate trade deals, he plans to increase tax collection by 5.5% of GDP over four years, through pension reform and by clamping down on tax exemptions. An enthusiastic climate activist, he would ban new licences for oil exploration, although crude oil and minerals account for more than half of Colombia’s exports.
Rodolfo Hernandez admires Hitler:
And the populist will win… Colombia will elect and engineer supporting democracy and private property rather than a left wing communist who was a criminal!
Colombia does not want to be another Venezuela, we will vote against Petro.
PalenciaDiego
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