I'm John Batchel. This is the New World Report.

There's a great deal of news coming from the Americas,

and I'm helped by Alejandro Pina Sklusa, member of the opposition in Venezuela, traveling in Europe,

and Ernesto Arrucho, former Foreign Minister of the Republic of Brazil, traveling as well.

Gentlemen, we go right to the sound of voting.

Bogota and throughout Colombia, the first round of the vote to choose a presidential

candidate going to a man who was identified with the restoration of transparency and

legality and order in Colombia, anti-narcoterrorism,

anti-terrorism whatsoever. At the same time, the man now president is protesting the vote,

saying there were irregularities in the vote, and his candidate is also complaining. In other words,

the playbook that we've grown familiar with, when the left wins an election or when Narco-Terrists win an election,

they're satisfied with it. When they lose, they scream fraud. I come to you, Alejandro, because

your country has gone through this nightmare most recently in 24

when the regime didn't like the results of electing you the opposition, so it claimed fraud

and then fraudulently stole the election.

What is your measure of these protests by Petro?

Is Petro going to let the results stand?

Good evening to you.

Good evening, John.

Well, he doesn't have any other alternative because there's a big difference between

the situation in Colombia and the situation in Venezuela two years ago.

In Venezuela, there was a dictatorship for 26 years. So they

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