The Colombian presidential candidate Rodolfo Hernández in Barranquilla, Colombia, last week.

Broadcasting News Corporation : Rodolfo Hernández, a 77-year-old businessman and former mayor, has emerged as Colombia’s most disruptive presidential candidate in decades, electrifying voters — and a huge TikTok fan base — with a Trump-like “drain the swamp” message. He’s one of two remaining candidates in Sunday’s election for president of the nation, the third largest in Latin America, with the winner taking control at a pivotal moment in the country’s history. Hernández has promoted himself as a paragon of democracy, a successful businessman who makes good on promises and cares for the poor. But a Times reporter traveled to Bucaramanga, a mountain-fringed city where he built his empire and once served as mayor, and found a different picture: an anti-corruption candidate who has been indicted on corruption charges, an austerity proponent whose slash-and-burn policies led to a hunger strike by city employees and a construction magnate who once pledged to build 20,000 homes for the poor that never materialized. The opponent: Hernández faces Gustavo Petro, a former rebel and longtime senator who is hoping to become Colombia’s first leftist president. Their electoral success — they are roughly tied in the polls — reflects an anti-establishment fervor that swept through Latin America as longstanding poverty and inequality intensified during the pandemic. News collected from The New York Times.