Down with the Monarchy

COLOMBIA - Report 20 Jun 2014 by Veronica Navas and Andrés Escobar Arango
Executive SummaryThough he will remain a powerful force in forthcoming regional elections, and carry the banner of the opposition in an eventual referendum on a peace agreement, for Alvaro Uribe Santos’ reelection signals the beginning of the end of a political era. A second important message from last elections is that a majority of Colombians (50% to 45%) prefer a peace deal to a protracted civil war. There is hope that an end to the FARC (and ELN) insurgency is in sight.Some analysts are calling this a pyrrhic victory for Santos. We disagree. The main reason is that he will have 1,461 da...

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