{"id":40562,"date":"2022-06-20T13:53:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T10:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=40562"},"modified":"2022-06-20T13:53:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T10:53:12","slug":"colombia-has-elected-a-new-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=40562","title":{"rendered":"Colombia has elected a new president"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Colombia has held presidential elections.\u00a0The representative of the left forces, former partisan Gustavo Petro, won.\u00a0This was reported by Reuters,\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate .20.June .2022 | World News.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peter will become the first leftist leader of Colombia.&nbsp;He promised voters profound social and economic change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Incumbent Colombian President Ivan Duque has already congratulated his future successor.&nbsp;Peter was also greeted by leaders of a number of foreign countries.&nbsp;The Cuban president called his victory &#8220;historic and nationwide.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has called Colombia a fraternal country, although relations with it were severed in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peter also congratulated the President of Mexico.&nbsp;Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador called Peter&#8217;s victory &#8220;the end of the curse and the dawn&#8221; for the fraternal people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peter&#8217;s proposals, especially to ban new oil projects, have scared some investors, although he has promised to abide by current contracts.&nbsp;His victory is likely to cause unrest in the market until the composition of his cabinet is announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 62-year-old Peter has twice run in the 2010 and 2018 presidential elections, but was unsuccessful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to CNN, in his youth, Peter became a member of the left-wing guerrilla movement &#8220;April 19 Movement&#8221; (M19), founded in protest of the 1970 election.\u00a0In different years he served as a member of the House of Representatives (lower house of Congress) and senator.\u00a0In 2012-2015 he was the mayor of Bogota.\u00a0Peter plans to restore diplomatic relations with Venezuela and consider changes to the terms of the Free Trade Agreement with the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Source:Ukrgate<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Colombia has held presidential elections.\u00a0The representative of the left forces, former partisan Gustavo Petro, won.\u00a0This was reported by Reuters,\u00a0 KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate .20.June .2022 | World News. Details Peter will become the first leftist leader of Colombia.&nbsp;He promised voters profound social and economic change. Incumbent Colombian President Ivan Duque has already congratulated his future successor.&nbsp;Peter was also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":40570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10474],"tags":[813,996,1000,1024,1064,1854,10786],"class_list":["post-40562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-news","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-news","tag-ukrgate","tag-war","tag-world-news","tag-world-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40571,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40562\/revisions\/40571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}