AL JAZEERA: 'What you see is what you get': Bogota elects first woman mayor →

Bogota, Colombia - Colombians made history on Sunday by electing a woman mayor in Bogota as they took to the polls in local and regional elections for the first time since the signing of a landmark 2016 peace deal.

Journalist-turned-politician Claudia Lopez, 49, is part of the Green Alliance party. A former senator, she was vice-presidential candidate in the 2018 election.

Claudia Lopez has become the first woman elected mayor of Bogota, the capital of Colombia [Luisa Gonzalez/Reuters]