BOGOTA (Reuters) - The Inter-American Commission of Human Rights has called on Colombia to suspend a decision to oust the mayor of its capital, putting pressure on President Juan Manuel Santos to intervene in the sensitive case just as his re-election campaign begins.
Gustavo Petro, 53, Colombia's second-most powerful official and a former leftist guerrilla, is set to be ousted in around 10 days after appeals failed to overturn the inspector general's decision which also bans him from public office for 15 years.
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