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Who's Afraid of Gustavo Petro?

By Sibylla Brodzinsky

From guerrilla to presidential candidate, Gustavo Petro's rise encapsulates the divisions, fears and hopes permeating Colombian politics today.

This article is adapted from AQ's print issue on peace and economic opportunity in Colombia | Leer en español

Short, slight and bespectacled, prone to spending hours debating brainy topics like Latin American geopolitics, Gustavo Petro hardly strikes the figure of a firebrand.

But with a unique mix of quiet self-assurance and heated oratory, the one-time guerrilla leader and former mayor of Bogotá has...

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