A Bit More to the Right, Please…

COLOMBIA - Report 11 Mar 2014 by Veronica Navas and Andres Escobar

During the last four years, President Santos has been leaning towards the left, either in his support of center-left parties (Liberals and Cambio Radical), or in the peace negotiations with extreme leftist FARC. All this time, popular support for such political inclination was questionable, since he was elected on a center-right political platform, provided in 2010 by then President Uribe. Last Sunday’s congressional elections provide a sense of what Colombians think about these events. Indeed, President Santos’ main political party, Partido de la U, was the winner in the Senate, with 21 of...

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