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Andean Group - January 2017 (ISSN 1741-4466)

COLOMBIA: Santos government forced to concentrate on combatting corruption

President Juan Manuel Santos would have liked to dedicate the final years of his mandate ending in August 2018 to consolidating and concluding the historic peace process that his government has been advancing with Colombia’s leftist insurgent guerrillas. But the revelations that, as in many other Latin American countries, Brazilian engineering firm Odebrecht paid millions of US dollars in bribes to secure state contracts in Colombia in recent years, has forced the Santos administration to focus its efforts on pursuing all those implicated in the corruption scandal – which may include current government officials. Santos is well aware that upholding his government’s commitment to combatting corruption may be just as important to his political legacy as the peace process itself.

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