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Colombia’s first leftist president is sworn in
Gustavo Petro became Colombia’s first leftist president yesterday, elected by voters who hope he can carry out ambitious social and economic reforms meant to reduce violence and deep inequality in the polarized Andean country. Petro, a former member of the M-19 guerrillas, was inaugurated in Bogota’s Bolivar Plaza yesterday afternoon. Senate President Roy Barreras swore him in before some 100,000 people, including Spanish King Felipe VI, Latin American presidents and regular Colombians invited by Petro. New Vice-President Francia Marquez, an environmental activist and former housekeeper, is the first Afro-Colombian woman to hold her post. Petro, a 62-year-old former senator, has said his fi

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