my name is elizabeth dickenson. i'm the senior analyst for columbia international crisis group. we work on armed conflicts and prevention of conflicts. if daddy hello lauer welcome please introduce yourself to our global audience. i thank you for having me. my name is larry campbell, i'm an assisted professor in political science at the university of utah. i study democratic backsliding in latin america in particular in columbia, which is my home country. all right, good to have you on savannah. welcome. please introduce yourself to our stream view us. hi, my name is susanna mar dot, and i work for control risks. i am the senior analyst from the team, a global risk analysis, and i am in charge in columbia and there's a list in colombian politics. thanks. savannah, all right, let's start out with our 2 presidential candidates. they appear to be quite different. let's start out with gustavo petro at. we've got a couple of facts here. elizabeth, help us understand. gustavo, what kind of the candidate is he? it is a left the senator is a former m 19 member, which is an armed group.

so we will have to listen and see how he implement many of the reforms. elizabeth dickenson is a senior analyst who has an international crisis group, and she says petros, when changes the political landscape across latin america leaking is really into this cited moment. i would point to 2 things specifically. the 1st one is really the extent to which day to day bread and butter concerns dominated this election campaign. a columbus, an enormously unequal country, with the lack of social mobility that has been started to great against the majority of what that means and what petrol has pitched himself as, as of course, is as a person who can affect change to that inequality. i think the 2nd thing is we have to remember that when i'm is just freshly emerging from 50 years of civil war, turned up civil war. the political left was really stigmatized as being some post sympathetic video. movements to really left is guerrillas and what catches victory demonstrates is that that stigmatization at that sort of shadow pumps. it no longer dominates the come in political face with one of the most i