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Colombia: more doubts than certainties

10/10/2005 By Carlos Malamud

The political moment Colombia is currently living is marked by the existence of a great number of doubts about its near future, whose resolution may, in any case, make the country's evolution clearer.

If no progress can be made in the negotiation process, the only solution to stop terrorism and crime is the military way out, which could defeat the illegal groups and offer the possibility of bringing them before a court to be judged for the crimes committed.


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Colombia Conflict Conflict resolution Democratic control

Bio author: Carlos Malamud

PhD in History of America (with honours) by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He is currently Lecturer of Latin American History at the Contemporary History Department of the UNED. He is Deputy Director of the Latin American Electoral Observatory. He contributes to several Spanish publications specializing in international relations.