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Weekly Report - 10 July 2014 (WR-14-27)
COLOMBIA: Santos seeks to seize on special moment
“Colombia showcased good football to the world,” President Juan Manuel Santos said on 5 July in his first appearance on national radio and television since his re-election three weeks earlier. Wearing the national team shirt, Santos called on the Colombian football federation to confirm the side’s manager, Argentina’s Néstor Pekerman, in his position. Santos’s popularity has soared since his re-election on 15 June in line with public backing for peace talks with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc), and he is a canny enough politician to realise that this can be attributed in no small part to Colombia’s best-ever performance in the Fifa World Cup in Brazil. He is keen to move swiftly now to capitalise on it.
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