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Colombia's Challenge: A Special Report

By AQ Online

For peace to endure, Colombia must focus on bringing jobs and prosperity to the countryside, shows a new issue of AQ.

There is a truly extraordinary gap today between how the world sees Colombia, and how Colombia sees itself.

To most outsiders, Colombia is a spectacular success story – the country that defeated kidnappers and cocaine kingpins, and stepped back from the brink of becoming a “failed state” in the 1980s and 90s. Home to the urbane president who struck a peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016.

To most Colombians, that rosy view is out of date – and out of touch.

The economy has been sluggish for years....

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