“The people who do support him have very high hopes, and they are probably going to be disappointed pretty quickly when he can’t move things right away,” said Adam Isacson, an expert on Colombia at the Washington Office on Latin America think tank.
Colombia picks Gustavo Petro, 1st leftist president, in tight runoff contest
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Isacson said coca eradication targets could become less of a priority for the Colombian government under a Petro administration, as well as the pace at which drug traffickers who are arrested are sent to the U.S. to face charges,
Ex-rebel front-runner in Colombian vote, could shake U.S. ties
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