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Quake aid, a 21st-century Patriot Plan and a bid to be Washington's top security partner sit behind the new pacts.

President Abelardo de la Espriella named María Consuelo Araújo as ambassador to the US, returning to diplomacy a former foreign minister from a political family marked by paramilitary and kidnapping cases.

He won by 250,830 votes, then a 7.4 quake hit on day three. What the security program now costs, and who has first claim on it.

A $1 billion pledge follows a year of OFAC sanctions, a revoked visa, and a call from the former president for US troops to disobey their president.