Luis Fajardo
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404 appearances
21 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 29 Aug
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So I think we could find the resources to send our instructors to train people who are fighting the same enemy.
Results are kind of indicating a similar situation to what we had in Colombia in the previous four years.
That is no party dominating Congress.
Now, that could be significant for whoever becomes the president of Colombia in the elections that are happening in late May.
Because during the last four years, left-wing president Gustavo Petro, who had a very ambitious agenda of reform, he couldn't manage to pass a lot of these initiatives through Congress.
And presumably, the person who takes over could be facing a similar situation, given the initial preliminary indications of the elections in Colombia, where no party has appeared to gain a commanding advantage in Congress.
Certainly.
I mean, he proposed a very substantial number of social reforms, which to a large extent have not occurred.
People, in realistic terms, are not expecting him to pass a great amount of them in the few months that he has left in office.
What he has tried very openly to do is to make sure that a left-wing presidential candidate
manages to succeed him.
And Petro is trying very ambitiously to promote the election of him.
He also, as you mentioned, he's talking about a constitutional reform that he claims would make it easier to implement all these ambitious reforms.
They have been certainly an important part of the electoral debate.
Colombia has traditionally been a very close ally of the US.
And many people in Colombia, particularly conservative Colombians, were shocked to see the level of confrontation that occurred at a political level.
between Colombia and the U.S.
The conservatives, very quickly, they say that Petro was endangering Colombia's interests by fighting or presenting a confrontational attitude towards Trump, while Petro's followers, however, say that his position has been a position of defending ideals.
And in the process, he has become a voice of opposition to Trump when many other leaders in the region were obviously moving in a different direction.
And this has gotten him
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