Colombia's VERY Surprising Presidential Election
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How Is the Security Situation in Columbia Informing Politics?
The peace agreement was signed in 20 16 with the fark, but what it didn't do was have a solution for how to sort of fill those gaps and vacuums that were left behind. And unfortunately, what we've seen in the last four years is that other armed groups and criminal organizations have been much more adept at filling those spaces than the columbian state. The risk now inthis electural scenario is that the, you know, these armed groups are very good at understanding when their opportunities are emerging. Any time there's uncertainty, or the eye is off the ball, or the militaryis distracting, distracted by protecting voting boots, m they're going to take advantage of
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