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Gustavo Petro, the leftist former Bogota mayor and ex-rebel fighter, won Colombia’s presidential election on Sunday. Petro beat construction magnate Rodolfo Hernández with a margin of more than 700,000 ballots, taking 50.5% of votes, Reuters reported. His running mate Francia Márquez, a single mother and former housekeeper, will become the country’s first Black woman vice-president, according to the BBC.