In June of 2022 the people of Colombia went to the polls for the 2nd round elections between Gustavo Petro, a senator and former Mayor of Bogota, defeated Rodolfo Hernández Suárez, former Mayor of Bucaramanga, in the runoff election.  Who won? Why did they win? and what does it mean for the people of Colombia?  I discuss with Bogota based Colombian journalist Poly Martinez   More about Poly, she explains;  I studied Philosophy and Political Science at the Universidad de Los Andes, in Bogotá.  For most of my life, I've been a journalist, but my CV is eclectic: I have worked in Government (Foreign Office), with oil majors (BP, internal and external comms, and comm for crisis management), with several NGOs, like Kroc Institute, encharged of monitoring the implementation of the Peace Agreement signed in 2016; Op-ed writer, newspaper and magazine editor; I'm correspondent for the Spanish Abc newspaper, among others; radio talk-show frequent panelist (news of Colombia nd the world). University teacher (journalism and political analysis), but also free-lancer writing about topics related to high-performance amateur cyclists, runners, and triathletes. In all of the different jobs, communications or comms consultancy have been at the core of what I do.

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