His campaign has been much more focused on tick talk. He kind of blames corruption for all o columbia's problems, says the first thing he will do as president is to sell off most of the presidential cars. And plans he would close dozens of columbian embassies and consulates because he says that the civil servants working there don't do any work at all. A fico victory could lead to another round of street demonstrations, because people are sick of the status so there could be post election violence depending on what the outcome is.
POLLS SUGGEST // Polls suggest the country might get its first-ever leftist leader. Whatever the outcome, a fresh outbreak of violent protest may await. Africa’s increasingly crippling fuel shortages can be blamed on more than just higher prices. And reflecting on the life of Lawrence MacEwen, laird of a tiny Scottish island whose austere simplicity he fought to preserve.
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