Gustavo petro is running for president of columbia. He wants to replace the hydrocarbon industry with tourism and an agriculture industry. His supporters see him as a candidate that embodies change. But he would raise some taxes, specifically for oil and gas producers.
POLLS SUGGEST // Polls suggest the country might get its first-ever leftist leader. Whatever the outcome, a fresh outbreak of violent protest may await. Africa’s increasingly crippling fuel shortages can be blamed on more than just higher prices. And reflecting on the life of Lawrence MacEwen, laird of a tiny Scottish island whose austere simplicity he fought to preserve.
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