Security Update (Wed)

Colombians have been celebrating a spate of encouraging statistics on the rollback of crime: kidnapping for ransom has fallen sharply over the past year, Bogotá has rejoined the trend of other major cities in reducing its murder rate to a 21-year low, and manual eradication of coca plantations in the Macarena park has more than met its target in spite of the resistance put up by the Farc guerrillas.