Will Colombia look left? Presidential race focuses on inequality, enduring violence

We ask about the many lives of candidate Gustavo Petro, a one-time rebel turned economist and mayor of Bogota. How radical a change do he and his running mate Francia Marquez represent? How real are the threats against them and the electoral process, in a nation where militias still kill human rights activists and which still counts at least one active rebellion? 

More broadly, we see why the protests sparked by the perceived mismanagement of the Covid-19 pandemic resonate well beyond Colombia's borders: in a Peru that faces a potential food crisis, a Venezuela still isolated on the world stage and a Brazil that also heads to the polls later this year. 

Produced by Alessandro Xenos, Juliette Laurain and Guillaume Gougeon.

>> Watch our special programme: Colombia's peace deal generation

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