# Gustavo Petro President of [[Colombia]] from 2022 to 2026 — the country's **first left-wing president**, a former member of the M-19 guerrilla movement and former mayor of Bogotá. Constitutionally barred from a second term (Colombia allows only one), he was succeeded on **7 August 2026** by **Abelardo de la Espriella**, who won a one-point runoff over the left's candidate Iván Cepeda. Petro clashed publicly with the second Trump administration, most visibly over deportation flights. The vault's interest is in his term as the test case for whether a left government could hold in a country built around US-aligned security cooperation — and in how narrowly its succession went to the hard right. > [!info] Stub — created 2026-08-31 as a link target for [[Colombia]]. Expand with the M-19 history, the peace-process implementation record, the total-peace policy, and the 2025–26 confrontations with Washington. ## See Also - [[Colombia]] · [[Venezuela]] · [[War on Drugs]]