Today Medellín, Colombia’s second city, is safer than Chicago
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskTwo men who served as mayors during that transformation, Sergio Fajardo and Federico Gutiérrez, are among the leading candidates to be Colombia’s next president. A coalition of right-wing parties chose Mr Gutiérrez, commonly known as Fico, in primary season in March. The centrists chose Mr Fajardo. Colombians would do well to understand the legacies of Mr Gutiérrez and Mr Fajardo before casting their vote.
The seeds of Mr Fajardo’s political life were sown in Medellín in the 1990s. César Gaviria, Colombia’s president at the time, appointed a council of advisers to stem violence in the city. That council’s leader, Maria Emma Mejía, gathered businessfolk, academics and charity workers to discuss the problem. Those discussions fed into the creation of an organisation called.
It is Mr Gutiérrez, who was elected as Medellín’s mayor in 2015, who is hot on Mr Petro’s heels in the presidential race. His rise has been swift. Before the primaries his name was hardly known outside Medellín. Since then the share of people who say they will vote for him has tripled, to around a quarter. He is a more skillful glad-hander than Mr Fajardo, seeking and receiving the backing of all of Colombia’s established parties .
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