FILE PHOTO: Colombia's President-elect Gustavo Petro addresses the audience at his alma mater Universidad Externado de Colombia, in Bogota, Colombia July 26, 2022. REUTERS/Vannessa Jimenez/File Photo
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Gustavo Petro will on Sunday become Colombia's first leftist president, 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, is set to be inaugurated in Bogota's Bolivar Plaza on Sunday afternoon.
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