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199 social leaders had been killed so far this year from January to early December.

Fedenaga estimates around 700,000 cattle a year are smuggled, either live or as meat, into Colombia.

The two discussed antinarcotics, Venezuelan & Cuban relations, the Peace Process, immigration, and human rights.

Petro warned that the main suspects were the Dagoberto Ramos Mobile Column, an important former FARC front

Petro's initiative depends on cooperation and good faith from myriad criminal groups

It has, thus far, been a week of general weakness in the equity market and a Peso that has been led around by the nose, by global events.

A left-wing President appointing a conservative party senator to head foreign relations sends a strong message to Colombians & foreign governments.

Gustavo Petro, a former guerrilla fighter, has pledged a clean break with what he sees as the confrontational, violent policies of his predecessor.

"I wouldn’t be surprised if the more prosperous, urban, multiple degree‐​holding types who supported Petro thinking he was some sort of Nordic social democrat live to regret it." - Daniel Raisbeck

No matter who wins, we can expect plenty of drama in Colombia's Casa Nariño the next 4 years.