What Jumps Out: Great Question

This column’s idea is to look for what is jumping out in Colombia, making a difference, and what should be on the radar.

This week little of that, so I will spare you another video with me basking in the sun of the UK.

Rosa Villavicencio, the new temporary foreign minister, is still trying to unravel the US situation in terms of both trade and political vitriol. Little progress this week.

Violence is still making headlines with the Gulf Clan (ex-Paramilitaries), ELN & FARC dissidents making unlikely bed partners as they fight for their share of the narcotics trade.

There are rumblings (only in a quiet news week) about Gustavo Petro looking to ban opinion polls ahead of next year’s elections. Frankly, does anyone on a global scale ever read them? Those locally, if you check the technical information, have long since been unreliable in methodology, inaccurate, and, added to this, the local press cherry-pick how they report them. Miguel Uribe, still struggling for his very life in the hospital, has risen from nowhere to top the most recent polls.

And that is about it. As ever, we have presidents, past and present, being accused of all manner of things, as well as the usual political shenanigans in congress, but I won’t waste your time.

Have a great Friday.

Regards.

Roops.

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President Gustavo Petro. Photo credit: Presidencia de la República de Colombia.