Colombia’s New Dawn
Trapped since the 1960’s in armed conflict with unscrupulous militias, and hostage to drug lords who turned the country’s vast rural areas into fiefdoms of crime and untold atrocities, Colombia long appeared to be addicted to violence. But that is no longer true, and President Juan Manuel Santos is poised to build on the country's recent successes.
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MADRID – Trapped since the 1960’s in a protracted armed conflict with the most unscrupulous militias imaginable, and hostage to drug lords who turned the country’s vast rural areas into fiefdoms of crime and untold atrocities, Colombia long projected to the world the image of a country addicted to violence. But no more.