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Weekly Report - 4 April 2006
COLOMBIA: Affluent are to face new one-off war tax
A clear sign of President Alvaro Uribe's confidence that he will be re-elected on 28 May was that he did not wait until after the elections to announce that he intends to levy a new tax to finance the internal war. It did not harm his case that shortly after his announcement the military were able to claim a major success in the campaign against the Farc guerrillas.
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