Colombia’s Dangerous Regress
Intensifying violence and a divisive election season reveal a startling deterioration in the country’s stability.
When I was in Bogotá in early 2023, I spoke to a young senator called Miguel Uribe Turbay. I hadn’t met him before, and I came away impressed by a politician whose life had been marked when he was just four by the murder of his mother, Diana Turbay, following her kidnap by Pablo Escobar’s henchmen. An articulate conservative, but not extreme, I thought Miguel Uribe had a future. But that future was brutally snuffed out when he was gunned down in April as he began his presidential campaign. Instantly, my mind, like that of many Colombians, went back to 1989, when three presidential...
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