Hal Hodson
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137 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 22 Jun
Hal Hodson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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What this means is that he espouses an approach to security known as Manoduro.
And what that means is that he basically wants to take the fight to the gangs and to the armed groups.
He is not interested in negotiating, at least not in the first instance.
He wants to use the army and all resources at his disposal to go after gangs, lock up gangsters and clean up the country, and in a place where security is be getting worse and worse under softer policies, this sounds very good to a large number of people.
Economically, his line is a little bit murkier.
He says that he's going to save lots of money by cutting bureaucracy and closing embassies, but the amount of money that he could save by doing that is really trivial.
He also says that he's going to save a vast sum by eliminating corruption.
But again, there isn't that much money to be saved by doing that.
The problem for Delas.
As the problem for really any Colombian leader is that almost ninety percent of government spending is protected by law.
And so if you want to cut that spending, you need to pass laws and maybe even change the constitution.
And to pass laws and definitely to change the constitution, you need strong majorities in Congress.
And right now Del Espreya's party has eight of I think a hundred and eight seats in
in the Senate in the upper house, which is just an indication of how weak they are there.
I think it's totally credible that Del Espreya could open a bunch of new prisons and take a very aggressive approach towards gangs.
The question is whether it will work.
And I think it's quite likely that it will improve things for Colombians.
There is not much doubt that a very soft approach where you just try and talk to armed groups that really have no incentive.
to tell you the truth or to cooperate, just talking to them, just negotiating with them all at the same time.
All it does is give them space.
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