Iván Duque has time to become a good president of Colombia. But the clock is ticking
may be over, but governing Colombia is no cakewalk. The, another nominally Marxist outfit, still threatens, as do violent drug-traffickers and dissidents from the. Geography sometimes conspires against development. Last month a mountainside collapsed, taking with it part of a new motorway linking Bogotá with the south-eastern lowlands. The government is helping more than 1.3m Venezuelans who have fled their country in the past three years.
Mr Duque thought the agreement too soft but as president has pledged to carry it out. Its core provision is succeeding: the vast majority of the former guerrillas have returned to civilian life. “We can’t afford to fail in that,” Mr Duque toldCritics accuse the new government of doing too little for rural development, which is essential to make the most of peace and avoid another war. That may be true, but Mr Duque retorts that he has done more in less time than his predecessor.
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