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Weekly Report - 22 September 2016 (WR-16-37)

COLOMBIA: Santos snubs Uribe amid positive polls

Former president Alvaro Uribe (2002-2010) invited President Juan Manuel Santos this week to debate the peace accord struck between his government and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc). Uribe argued that a debate was necessary ahead of the referendum on the accord on 2 October in order to allow Colombians to appreciate the consequences of their vote. Santos declined, perhaps buoyed by a number of recent surveys pointing to a comfortable victory for the ‘yes’ vote (see sidebar).

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