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Can Ivan Duque govern Colombia without terror?
by Adriaan Alsema November 16, 2020
Anyone in Colombia is free to criticize far-right President Ivan Duque as long as they are willing to die or live in terror for anti-opposition violence.
A surge in assassination and death threats is making it clear that an increasing number of allies of Duque and his far-right Democratic Center party no longer tolerate democratic opposition.
Terrorizing opposition to Duque
Native Colombian Senator Feliciano Valencia said that a bomb exploded 50 yards from his farm in the southwestern Cauca province on Saturday, two weeks after the politician’s car was taken under fire.
Eleven supporters of opposition Senator Gustavo Petro, Duque’s opponent in the 2018 elections, have been assassinated so far this year in an unexpected surge in deadly violence against Colombia’s most popular opposition movement.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/can-colombias-ivan-duque-govern-without-terror/