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Andean Group - July 2015 (ISSN 1741-4466)

Vargas Lleras reveals his hand

Vice-President German Vargas Lleras is one of the great chameleons of Colombian politics. Since 2000, the grandson of former president Carlos Lleras Restrepo (1966-1970) has expertly navigated the country's political tides, siding with the Partido Liberal dissident Alvaro Uribe prior to the former's election in 2002 and then hitching his Cambio Radical party to Juan Manuel Santos' 2010 campaign. With local elections due in October, Vargas Lleras has spent much of this year building powerful alliances that could strengthen his expected presidential bid in 2018.

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