Colombia runoff pits conservative and leftist visions

El Pais

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The Presidency not only wins vote by vote, but word by word. That is what both campaigns know, which have been building—sometimes premeditated, sometimes improvised—two diametrically opposed personalities: the candidate of the ultra-right, Abelardo de la Espriella, who presents himself as an authoritarian, provocative leader, endowed with an almost prophetic exceptionality that allows him to speak of a “miracle homeland”; and the aspirant of the…

Eldiario.es

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Colombia chooses this Sunday between two visions of the country. Two perspectives in which only one of the candidates stands at the extreme, to the right, while the other remains scrupulously in the democratic framework This 21 June is celebrated the second presidential round in Colombia. It is, perhaps, the most decisive electoral contest for the future of the country in recent years. Although some show the candidates as two political extremes,…

Noticias de Navarra

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Colombia is at a crossroads on 21 June. The results obtained in the first round of its presidential elections force a second round in which the country’s electorate will have to decide between two radically different visions. A second round election will decide whether Colombia will continue the path taken by Petro’s leftist policies in the term ending, or turn to the populist radical right, which in this way would add another Latin American cou…