Conectar las agendas de seguridad, paz y desarrollo será crucial para aprovechar los logros recientes.

With more than two dozen potential candidates, Colombia’s 2018 race is up for grabs. Is there room for surprise among so many familiar faces?

Without conflict to bring them together, Colombians are confronting their differences, and engaging in the messy business of democracy.

"The impression now is clearly of an opposition that is prostrate before the [Venezuelan] government,” said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth.

A robust state can help do away with corruption - and ensure peace in Colombia.

Sin un conflicto que los unifique, los colombianos confrontan sus diferencias y los altibajos de la democracia.

Investors and policymakers need to watch the region's election wave, write AS/COA’s Brian Winter and Igarapé Institute’s Robert Muggah for ForeignPolicy.com.