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How to to end edemic violence in Colombia? Presidential elections to take place on Sunday

France24 · 🇫🇷 public France · · 258 words · By Video by Eliza HERBERT
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Claim 1: “The presidential election is set to determine Gustavo Petro’s successor.”
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Wikipedia and multiple web sources confirm that Gustavo Petro is the current president and that the 2026 elections are to determine his successor, as he is constitutionally barred from seeking re-election.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gustavo Petro, the 35th and current president of Colombia, has family members who are prominent in education, activism and politics. Petro's immediate family became the first family of Colombia on his…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_of_Gustavo_Petro
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego (born 19 April 1960) is a Colombian politician and economist who has served as the 35th president of Colombia since 2022. Upon inauguration, he is considered the first …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavo_Petro
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Humane Colombia (Spanish: Colombia Humana), formerly known as the Progressive Movement (Spanish: Movimiento Progresistas), is a Colombian left-wing political platform and party founded in 2011 and led…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humane_Colombia
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Claim 2: “Presidential elections to take place on Sunday”
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Multiple independent sources (Havana Times, The New York Times, and other web results) confirm that presidential elections were scheduled for and held on Sunday, May 31, 2026.
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web search NEUTRAL — HAVANA TIMES — Presidential elections are scheduled to be held in Colombia this Sunday, May 31, 2026.If no candidate achieves that, a second round will take place on June 21 between the top two finish…
https://havanatimes.org/opinion/colombia-holds-presidential-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Colombia's presidential election is headed to a run-off after voters delivered a sharply polarised first-round result on Sunday, setting up a contest between hard-right populist Abelardo de la Espriel…
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260531-hard-right-pop…
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web search NEUTRAL — Far-Right Outsider Advances in Colombia’s Heated Presidential Election. The candidate, Abelardo de la Espriella, will face a senator from the left-wing party of the departing president, Gustavo Petro,…
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/world/americas/colombia-e…
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Claim 3: “Violence is an endemic problem in the country that has been ravaged by conflict for decades.”
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Multiple sources describe Colombia's violence as 'endemic' and note that the country has been ravaged by conflict for decades (specifically mentioning 'almost six decades' in one source).
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web search NEUTRAL — This event impacted U.S.-Colombia relations for decades.In 2002, Álvaro Uribe Vélez was elected president on a promise to end the endemic violence, and his mix of aggressive enforcement and negotiatio…
https://ace-usa.org/blog/research/research-foreignpolicy/int…
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web search NEUTRAL — High levels of violence and conflict in Latin America have attracted the interests of local and international researchers to further understand how to reduce this violence and prevent current and futu…
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315415991_Navigatin…
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web search NEUTRAL — Colombian President Gustavo Petro, the first leftist to lead the country, took control in August. He has pledged to reform security forces, including the feared ESMAD riot police, and establish "total…
https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/law-order/2271851-colom…
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