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Weekly Report - 01 December 2011 (WR-11-48)
COLOMBIA: Uribe’s seeds of dispute fail to germinate
Public disagreements between former president Alvaro Uribe (2002-2010) and his successor, President Juan Manuel Santos, have for some time fuelled speculation in Colombia by commentators from across the political spectrum that the relationship between both men is disintegrating. In fact during a mid-November interview with BBC Mundo Santos said he had not spoken to Uribe in over three months and went as far as to say that his daily mantra is “don’t fight with Uribe”; he will have had good need of that mantra over the past week in order to avoid reacting to Uribe’s public (and private, but then leaked) comments regarding President Hugo Chávez and the improvement of bilateral relations with Venezuela.
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