THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Joseph Addington) - Colombia at the Crossroads
Petro cries fraud in the first round of the Colombian presidential election. The post Colombia at the Crossroads appeared first on The American Conservative .
Latin America Colombia at the Crossroads Petro cries fraud in the first round of the Colombian presidential election. President Gustavo Petro is scrambling to keep Colombia in the hold of the country’s left after voters on Sunday, in the first round of the national elections, sent a sharp message that they are ready to take the country in a new direction. Right-wing populist candidate Abelardo de la Espriella took first place with 43 percent of the vote, a result which Petro declared Sunday “has no binding force.” Petro argued that “hundreds of thousands of votes were added” to the rolls to swing the election, sparking…Open