Can Colombia’s election end the war on drugs?

Colombia’s presidential election is heading to a pivotal runoff between two political outsiders: a former guerilla fighter turned senator who may change into the nation’s first left-wing president, and a 77-year-old right-wing populist TikTok star.

It is a important time for the nation, six years after a historic peace deal that was supposed to finish 50 years of civil conflict.

However as a substitute of promised peace and a brand new future, Colombians have confronted excessive earnings inequality, resurgent cocaine cartels and new militias taking on arms and inflicting bloodshed. 

With stark selections and actual penalties, the place does Colombia go from right here?

That includes:

• Angelika Rettberg, professor and researcher of armed battle and peacebuilding on the College of the Andes, in Bogota.

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