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Weekly Report - 24 April 2014 (WR-14-16)

COLOMBIA: Santos handed boost by Uribistas

The death of Colombia’s Nobel literature laureate, Gabriel García Márquez, at the age of 87 could indirectly benefit President Juan Manuel Santos as he seeks re-election on 25 May. Santos suitably captured the sense of national loss, eulogising García Márquez as “the greatest Colombian of all time”; but his closest electoral rival, Oscar Iván Zuluaga, the candidate representing Centro Democrático (CD), the party of former president Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010), saw his hopes of taking Santos to a second round dealt a blow by a tweet from a CD deputy-elect, María Fernanda Cabal, which seriously misjudged the public mood.

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