Eaton, Charlotte (2022) Colombia’s first leftist president? 2022 election from a historical perspective. LSE Latin America and Caribbean Blog (23 Jun 2022). Blog Entry.
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Abstract
Gustavo Petro has been labelled the first leftist to win the Colombian presidency. But from the historical perspective, Alfonso López Pumarejo, president in the 30s and 40s, fitted in a liberal and working-class spectrum, as Charlotte Eaton (LSE International History) resembles.
| Item Type: | Online resource (Blog Entry) | 
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| Official URL: | https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/latamcaribbean/ | 
| Additional Information: | © 2022 The Author | 
| Divisions: | International History | 
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JL Political institutions (America except United States) H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform | 
| Date Deposited: | 24 Aug 2022 08:21 | 
| Last Modified: | 29 Sep 2025 23:27 | 
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/116117 | 
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