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Weekly Report - 8 May 2014 (WR-14-18)
COLOMBIA: Scandals ensnare Santos and Zuluaga
Two scandals in a matter of days this week have struck the campaigns of President Juan Manuel Santos and Óscar Iván Zuluaga, his closest rival ahead of presidential elections on 25 May. Santos lost his campaign strategist, Juan José Rendón, after damaging revelations in the local media on 4 May alleging that he had accepted US$12m from drug capos to negotiate on their behalf with the Santos administration in 2011. Zuluaga rounded on Santos with vim, only to be rocked by a scandal himself when his campaign manager, Luis Alfonso Hoyos, was linked to a man accused of illegal wiretapping targeting the peace process with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc). Both Rendón and Hoyos have resigned.
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