Colombia's escalating, brutal internal conflict is defining its presidential election

A left-wing senator who backs talks with armed gangs faces an outsider endorsed by Trump.

Colombia’s High-Stakes Election: What to Know About the Candidates, Issues and Expected Results

Colombia’s election on Sunday pits a right-wing candidate endorsed by President Trump against a candidate promising continuity with the country’s departing leftist president.

By Genevieve Glatsky and Annie Correal

Colombia's runoff presidential election marked by polarization

After a bitter campaign, Colombians head to the polls on Sunday to choose between far-right candidate Abelardo de la Espriella, the favorite, and left-wing candidate Ivan Cepeda, the political heir to the outgoing president.

Colombia’s runoff election expected to trigger shift in decades-long armed conflict

Frontrunner Abelardo de la Espriella has vowed to return to full-scale military confrontation with armed groups Colombians go to the polls on Sunday in a presidential runoff expected to trigger to a dramatic shift in the country’s decades-long armed conflict, now at its most violent point since the landmark 2016 peace agreement between the government and most of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc). Polls show the frontrunner is the Trump-admiring far-right lawyer and millionair...

By Tiago Rogero in Bogotá

Colombians to vote in presidential run-off pitting leftist against hardliner

Run-off election sees leftist Ivan Cepeda and conservative Abelardo de la Espriella vying for the presidency.

Colombians vote for president amid corruption fears, polarisation

A deeply divided electorate will choose Colombia’s next president in a run-off on Sunday that pits a progressive against a conservative outsider, with both candidates tapping into fears of renewed internal conflict in the country. Voters will choose between businessman and lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella and Iván Cepeda, a lawmaker and heir to the political movement of outgoing President Gustavo Petro, the nation’s first leftist leader. The two defeated nine other contenders in a May 31...

By Associated Press

Who is Ivan Cepeda, left-wing candidate in Colombia's presidential elections?

Colombians are heading to the polls this Sunday for the second round of the presidential election. Up against the far-right Abelardo de la Espriella, the left-wing candidate Ivan Cepeda is the political heir to outgoing president Gustavo Petro. Report by Rodrigo Sedano and Aitor Chavarri, narrated by Juliette Brown.

By FRANCE24

Presidential candidates in Colombia scramble for every vote in final stretch of the campaign

The far-right contender Abelardo de la Espriella leads going into election day, while the leftist candidate Iván Cepeda is relying on a late surge

By Juan Lewin,María Martín

Colombia’s escalating, brutal internal conflict is defining its presidential election

"My brother was murdered for not paying an extortion payment...in front of his children," Edilma Martinez Flores said at a support centre for displaced people in Bogotá.

By David Apinga

Colombia Holds Runoff Presidential Election Sunday, June 21

Colombia’s June 21st runoff election: Between peace negotiations and a hard-line security policy, social reforms and a smaller state. The post Colombia Holds Runoff Presidential Election Sunday, June 21 appeared first on Havana Times.

By Circles Robinson