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Right-wing candidate pulls ahead in first round of Colombia's presidential vote

Iván Cepeda, an ally of Colombia's outgoing President Gustavo Petro who questioned the results of the election

Colombia’s far-right presidential candidate De la Espriella wins first round of vote ahead of runoff

election on Sunday and will face senator Iván Cepeda, the candidate backed by leftwing president Gustavo Petro, in the runoff. With 100% of ballots counted, the outsider and Donald Trump admirer Espriella secured

Colombian election reflects on ‘total peace’ promise as violence surges again

election, and the president’s chosen candidate, the leftwing senator Iván Cepeda – widely seen as the architect of “total peace” – supports maintaining the programme. But the rightwing candidates Abelardo de la Espriella and Paloma Valencia

Colombia’s climate crossroads: Trumpism casts shadow over presidential battle

Iván Cepeda to run for president. Photograph: Carlos Ortega/EPA Muhamad, a former environment minister, tells the attendees: “We must win in the first round because the future of Colombia will be decided here, in this

Trump admirer’s surprise first-round win is a blow to Colombia’s traditional conservatives

Iván Cepeda have just under three weeks to compete for the roughly 3.6m votes that did not go to either of them in the first round of Colombia’s presidential election on Sunday. That

Colombia prepares to go to polls in election shadowed by resurgence of political violence

Iván Cepeda, 63, who is leading in the polls and is regarded as the architect of the government’s “total peace” effort to sign disarmament deals with all criminal groups. Many security experts [consider