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Senator Gustavo Petro can win Colombia’s presidency

By Sergio Guzman / March 5, 2021

This does not mean a Petro presidency is the best option for Colombia. Though both the current government and the business sector want to avoid this ...
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Damage control

By Sergio Guzman / January 15, 2021

Colombian support for President Donald Trump during the 2020 presidential election threatens to stain the U.S.-Colombia relationship. The task now will be ...
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Duque’s house of cards is shaking

By Sergio Guzmán & Katherin Galindo / September 10, 2020

The death of Javier Ordóñez in Colombia has sparked social unrest that reveals frustrations that go far beyond police brutality.
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The currency of enmity: Why Colombians can’t find common ground on Uribe

By Sergio Guzmán / August 11, 2020

The reactions to former President Álvaro Uribe's arrest hints toward deep divisions within the country, the body politic, and within families across Colombia.
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Political violence, state incapacity and post-peace agreement Colombia

By Jerónimo Ríos Sierra / April 23, 2020

The rise of violence in Colombia highlights the complexity of implementing a peace agreement and how the absence of war does not necessarily guarantee peace.
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An interview with Douglas Farah, President of IBI Consultants

April 23, 2020

Farah joins the podcast to speak on his recently published report for the William Perry Center on how the Bolivarian Alliance, led by the Nicolás Maduro ...
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Turmoil in the Western Hemisphere

By Douglas Farah and Caitlyn Yates / April 15, 2020

Taking advantage of the demonstrations that flared across Latin America at the end of 2019, outside actors worked to push legitimate social protest to ...
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Drug trafficking and Colombian ‘peace’

By Mar Romero Sala / May 8, 2019

Since the disarming of the FARC two-and-a-half years ago, the actors, figures and methods have changed. But the conclusion is clear: drug trafficking in ...
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Where’s the party? Is Colombia about to become Peru?

By Christopher Sabatini / February 14, 2019

Ivan Duque’s low approval ratings have been blamed on missteps, migrants and a mentor that never seems to go away. But there are structural reasons too, ...
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Colombia’s seeming never-ending violence

By Jerónimo Ríos Sierra / February 8, 2019

The ELN may just have destroyed the possibility of peace in the long-troubled country, not just with the ELN but under the peace agreement with the FARC.
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