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A Skeptic's View on the "Peace Dividend"

By Alberto Bernal

The economic benefits are neither direct nor certain.

On July 20, 2010, President Juan Manuel Santos promised the 9 million voters who had just elected him to his first term that he would build on the foundation created “by a giant, our President Álvaro Uribe.”1 He declared that Colombia could now look to the future with hope, thanks to the multiple successes that Uribe had achieved during his eight years in power.

In his televised speech to the nation that night, the president-elect also told Colombians that he would continue his predecessor’s “democratic security strategy” until the terrorist groups operating in the...

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