
The Failure of the Liberal Democratic Model
American Diplomat
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Petro Petrov - Is He Gonna Deny the Extension of That License to New Exploitation?
The single largest US investor in Columbia is drum and which is a big coal company. They don't have any pending license for new exploitation but what happens with these licenses as you know is the license lasts for a certain period of time so you can extract coal for x number of years. And so it's due to expire for a particular large and productive coal mine in Columbia during petros presidency. That would be contrary to the free trade agreement that we have with Columbia. If he were to determine based on his earlier comment to deny the extension of that license to new license then he would have all the effects that I talked about. He could certainly ask to, you know, to renegotiate the
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