Graham Finlay

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481 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 6d ago

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Today with David McCullagh · Trump-backed outsider wins Colombian presidential election · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

And the peace process, such as it is, is an incredible success story behind the killing of at least 250,000 people and the displacement of up to 5 million people.

And this is displacement within cities, but also within regions of Colombia.

The violence was horrendous, involved violence.

Organized crime groups, which were strongly linked or funding revolutionary groups, government supporting groups, paramilitaries, just unbelievable violence.

And we need to draw attention to the communities who nonviolently tried to maintain their sort of lives and their farms.

And, you know, there are a number of nonviolent heroes in this story who often get neglected when you look at the violent groups.

Yeah, he's allied with, I think, broadly a sort of more neoliberal approach.

And one of the complicating things across Latin America and South America in particular over the last few decades, but especially under Donald Trump, is...

You might, you know, usually you have a party of the right, which is allied with the big landowners and the business interests, not all of whom are super concerned about democracy.

And then, you know, the left, which is a populist movement associated with indigenous groups and small landowners or peasants and all these groups which have not profited from some of the businesses such as they are.

There are a lot of minerals involved and there's a lot of conflict over land.

Right.

These groups have strong ideological elements.

A lot of the left have a genuinely Marxist tradition, which is, of course, part of what informs Pope Leo's ministry, having served in Peru for a very long time.

And on the right, a certain kind of affinity for private enterprise, selling off state companies.

So you've got genuine socialism versus an aversion to the government owning things.

But at the same time, some of the leftists might be quite socially conservative.

And so...

It doesn't always break down on ideological lines, but you've seen serious conflicts around elections, right?

The latest thing is Ivan Cepeda is not going to recognize Esprit's government until he renounces his U.S.

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