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Weekly Report - 27 March 2014 (WR-14-12)
COLOMBIA-ECUADOR: Santos faces repercussions over Petro’s dismissal
After months of uncertainty when the end came, it came quickly. Within 24 hours of a ruling by Colombia’s council of state upholding last December’s decision by the prosecutor general, Alejandro Ordóñez, to dismiss the mayor of Bogotá, Gustavo Petro, for gross mismanagement, President Juan Manuel Santos had appointed an interim successor. An eleventh-hour attempted intervention by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) was batted away by Santos, raising questions about its continued relevance. The demise of Petro, who had risen higher in Colombian politics than any other former guerrilla, could have an impact on both Santos’ re-election bid in May and the peace accords with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) in Cuba.
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