Bucaramanga

Peaceful protests also took place in cities including Medellin, Cali, Barranquilla and Bucaramanga, according to police.

Born in 1935 in Ghent, Belgium, to a Belgian mother and a Colombian father, Nova spent her early childhood in Bucaramanga, the capital of the Santander region in northeastern Colombia.

She has co-ordinated the response to the migration in the Colombian city of Bucaramanga, which has received more than 40,000 Venezuelans in recent years.

Petro’s rival, Hernández, the former mayor of Bucaramanga who had never held or run for a national office before, ran on a singular message of rooting out corruption.

At the polls in Bucaramanga, many voters did not seem troubled by the accusation.