Meet Colombia’s New President

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Meet Colombia’s New President

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New President Juan Manuel Santos, draped in a Colombian flag sash, gets a hug at his inauguration Saturday.

Colombia has a new president, Juan Manuel Santos, who was sworn in on Saturday and will immediately face a fractured diplomatic state—Venezuela and Ecuador have severed ties with the country—along with continuing drug violence and a long-festering rebel insurgency.

Santos, who beat out leftist challenger and Abraham Lincoln-beard stand-in Antanas Mockus, is expected to continue in former President Alvaro Uribe’s political footsteps. —JCL

The BBC:

Juan Manuel Santos has been sworn in as the new president of Colombia.

In his inaugural speech, Mr Santos said that mending relations with neighbours Ecuador and Venezuela would be one of his government’s main priorities.

In response, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he would like to meet “face-to-face” with Mr Santos.

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By rollzone, August 8, 2010 at 5:32 pm Link to this comment

hello. i accept your review as an oligarch, but i still am unable to determine if he is very brave or very foolish. he comes in wearing a bulls-eye, from expanding DEA camps, because coffee remains distant second to cocaine in capitalism (they told me they were the #1 supplier to our country). all the other countries of the region are very divergent with mineral mining, bio-fuel production, automobile manufacturing…- is he a foolish puppet of America, or going in new directions? either way high odds he survives the first year.

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By PatrickHenry, August 8, 2010 at 12:55 pm Link to this comment

I wish him the best of luck.

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By Robespierre115, August 8, 2010 at 11:52 am Link to this comment

Santos is a classic Latin American oligarch. Yesterday’s ceremony looked like the swearing-in of a Roman Emperor, no joke. Like the Bushes and Kennedys, he was groomed from the cradle to take the throne and now plans to turn Colombia into an even bigger capitalist wasteland.

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