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The decertification puts half a billion dollars of US security aid to Colombia at risk. Mafia & insurgent groups have flourished during the government of Gustavo Petro.

A 14 year old assassin was taken into custody at the scene, and the senator remains in critical condition.

Gustavo Petro: "Cocaine is illegal because it is made in Latin America, not because it is worse than whiskey."

Raisbeck asks whether the Colombian republic can withstand what he calls Petro's iminent constitutional onslaught.

The charges against his son result from an investigation that the President himself called for.

"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

With almost 100% of voting sites reporting, Petro won with approximately 50.5% of the vote, compared to approximately 47.25% of the vote for Hernandez.

Petro, who is praised by his friends for his “solid Marxist foundation,” plans to ban all exploration of oil, Colombia’s main export, to expropriate the nearly $100 billion that are now saved in individual, private pension accounts, and to print money to pay for public spending...

Colombia's June presidential runoff will pit a former leftist rebel guerilla against a construction magnate who lost his daughter to leftist rebel guerillas.

A similar program operates under leftist dictator Nicolás Maduro in neighboring Venezuela.