BOGOTA: Gustavo Petro, the leftist front-runner in Colombia's presidential election, on Monday canceled events in the country's coffee region because of what his office said was a plot by a crime gang to attack him.
But the visit has been called off after Petro's security team got information the La Cordillera crime gang was planning an attack, his office said in a statement. Petro lead an opinion poll last week with 43.6 per cent of prospective first-round votes, while his closest rival, the center-right Federico Gutierrez, tallied 26.7 per cent.
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