Growing up in Zipaquirá, Petro witnessed poverty and inequality and encountered labor organizers who helped shape his leftist worldview. As a teenager he became politically active, and at age 17 he joined the 19th of April Movement (M-19), a leftist guerrilla group that emerged after the disputed 1970 Colombian presidential election.
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