...government backed candidate Juan Manuel Santos has won the final round of that country's presidential election, promising to continue the tough security policies of his predecessor, outgoing President Alvaro Uribe. It wasn't much of a contest as he beat his closest rival, Green Party Candidate Antanas Mockus by about 40 points.
However, Columbia interests me. In a region where the political sphere seems to be tilting leftward, Columbia has gone the other way, primarily because I think it's worked for them. You don't hear a lot about chaos and drug cartels in the news anymore from Columbia, not because I don't think there aren't problems anymore (every country has them) but because I think President Uribe has done a lot to stabilize and improve the overall state of the country. So hopefully President-Elect Santos can keep that up. (Though how about the Green Party figuring in a presidential contest somewhere? Pretty cool, I gotta admit- despite the drubbing.)
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