US EditionColombia Braces for Elections Under Shadow of Violence
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Colombia Braces for Elections Under Shadow of Violence
Key Points — Colombia deploys 246,000 security personnel to protect 12,264 polling stations for March 8 legislative elections after politician kidnappings, drone threats, and 457 death threats — Last summer’s assassination of Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay, the first political assassination of its kind in decades, has transformed the security calculus for the entire electoral cycle […]
After eleven o’clock in the night, when in Bogotá most of the official offices—and the houses—have turned off the lights, Colombia’s Defense Minister Pedro Sánchez crosses the city at full speed for a new meeting. It is the umpteenth of a day in which two candidates for Congress have been kidnapped. These days, March 8 occupies almost everything. Less than a week after the legislative elections, security ceased to be one more chapter of the camp…
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