Economics
Meteoric Rise Lifts D.C. Commuter to Cusp of Colombia’s Presidency
- Ivan Duque is currently leading in polls ahead of May 27 vote
- Investors’ favorite though some proposals have raised eyebrows
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Five years ago, Ivan Duque was a little-known official at a Washington development bank, commuting from the leafy suburb of Chevy Chase. Today he’s the leading candidate to become president of Colombia.
If he wins, the challenges will be exceptional: hundreds of thousands of hungry Venezuelans pouring into Colombia’s cities, a countryside overrun by the private armies of cocaine traffickers, an unraveling peace process with Marxist guerrillas and a stalled $300 billion economy.