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Weekly Report - 22 August 2019 (WR-19-33)
COLOMBIA: Duque looks for a tail wind
Entering his second year in office, Colombia’s President Iván Duque is looking for something to give him a lift in the opinion polls. He has welcomed signs of economic recovery, and is promising new initiatives on frontiers and migration, corruption, and the environment. But it is far from clear this will help him revive in the polls and he could end up spending time and effort recycling policies in year two that did not quite work in year one.
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