Colombian Presidential Elections

Colombia shows South Americans how to vote
There is nothing inevitable about South America's plunge into Leftist militancy. We are not witnessing an inexorable, tectonic shift.

Colombians have just made history by giving a single presidential candidate a plurality of the vote, thus avoiding, for the first time since the foundation of the republic, a second-round election.

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Colombia halts Latin America's march to the Left
Colombians granted their Right-wing president a second four years in office yesterday, backing his assaults on the booming drugs trade...Alvaro Uribe, Washington's staunchest ally in Latin America, changed the constitution last year to allow himself to seek re-election and becomes the first Colombian president to win a second term for more than a century.

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