Colombian voters have rejected mainstream political parties in a first round of voting for a new president, and they’ve sent conservative millionaire businessman Rodolfo Hernández and leftist Senator Gustavo Petro to the runoff election on June 19. The World’s Latin America correspondent Jorge Valencia reports from Bogotá.
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