Hang on to Your Hope

COLOMBIA - Forecast 11 Feb 2014 by Veronica Navas and Andrés Escobar Arango

EXECUTIVE SUMMARYConservatives were the last ones we expected to jump on the May 2014 reelection bus. They were supposed to abide by Liberal rule, and ride in the back seat. Then everything turned upside down. The conservative political base tapped Martha Lucía Ramírez as its presidential candidate. How did she win the nod? One possible partial explanation: a dinner shared by former presidents Uribe and Pastrana the week before the convention. According to press reports, they struck a deal -- which for such former outspoken foes, reflects new heights of civility, or else new heights of desp...

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