On the night of May 26, when Alvaro Uribe Velez won the Colombian presidential race in a landslide, his victory was perceived in Bogota and Washington as a resounding mandate from Colombian voters for escalating the war against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Uribe, who takes office on August 7, campaigned on a pledge to re-establish the government’s authority… return to article
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