Colombia is heading to the polls to choose a president in an election that could prove decisive for the country’s embattled peace process with the Farc leftist guerrillas. “If Duque wins, the peace process will be in doubt,” said Adam Isacson, a Colombia expert at the Washington Office on Latin America, a US thinktank. Though Petro supports the peace process, observers doubt he has won over enough moderates to win the election. Even so, his candidacy is seen as a testament to the peace process, because previously leftists would be associated with the Farc. “The peace process has created a lot more space for the political left,” Isacson said.

Source: The Guardian May 27, 2018 11:15 UTC