Colombia Elects Right-Wing Populist Ivan Duque As President
The young former senator won the first election since a peace accord ended the country's 50-year-old rebel war. Duque, who defeated former leftist rebel Gustavo Petro, promised to overhaul the accord.
by Emma Bowman
Jun 18, 2018
2 minutes
On Sunday, Colombia elected a new president, Ivan Duque, a conservative former senator who's pledged to rewrite a divisive peace treaty that ended the country's 50-year-old guerrilla war.
In the second and final round of elections, Duque won 54 percent of the vote, defeating former guerrilla fighter and onetime Bogota
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