Former rebel Gustavo Petro narrowly won a runoff election in Colombia, ushering in a new era of politics by becoming the country’s first leftist president.
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The vote comes amid widespread discontent over rising inequality, inflation and violence factors that led voters in the first round to turn their backs on the long-governing centrist and right-leaning politicians and chose two outsiders in Latin America's third-most populated nation.