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...Where Mr Uribe will be in 2022 is a matter of debate....
...The FT's Latin American editor, Michael Stott, and I spoke to Mr Uribe from his wife's family ranch near Medellin....
...“It makes the whole country’s progress an appendage to the saga of Uribe.”...
...As editor, I have sat down with strongmen such as Paul Kagame of Rwanda, Alvaro Uribe of Colombia and Vladimir Putin of Russia. Each might be said to have blood on their hands....
...“I’m leaving Miami,” said Federico Uribe, a Miami artist as he packed up in his warehouse studio, and lifted crated sculptures on to trolleys to escape potential rain spill....
...He is considered a political ally of former President Álvaro Uribe, and like him criticises the possibility of the Farc running for election and holding public office....
...From Mr Michael Colijn....
...Uribe, draped in the Colombian colours, emerges from his helicopter with all the confident poise of a film star, a speech already on his lips....
...“Santos has waited his whole life to be president of Colombia,” says Michael Shifter, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington DC based think tank where Mr Santos is a member-on-leave....
...Critics dismiss such a growth target as hubris, after Michael Geoghegan, the HSBC chief executive, described Colombia as among the next wave of Bric countries....
...Most also applaud outgoing president Álvaro Uribe’s success in subduing the Farc guerrilla insurgency: Mr Uribe “saved” Colombia in the same way Churchill once “saved” Britain....
...“In some ways Mr Uribe was the change candidate in 2002 and Mr Mockus is the change candidate in 2010,” says Michael Shifter, president of the Inter-American Dialogue....
...He was applauded as he praised Mr Uribe as a strong leader, saying ”our Congress and our government must never turn our back on such a friend as Uribe”....
...New tensions in the relations between Mr Chávez and Álvaro Uribe, his pro-US counterpart, have been triggered by a controversy surrounding more than 40 hostages – politicians, military and police officers...
...Michael Shifter of the Inter-American Dialogue, said: “The approval of the FTA by Congress would be difficult enough even under more favourable circumstances....
...Michael Spagat, a Colombia expert at the UK’s Royal Holloway College, said that the government would need to do more to persuade private businesses to provide steady employment to the mostly young ex-combatants...
...“There is a delirious quality about it,” says Michael Shifter, of the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington and author of an new report on policy options for the US....
...“It’s a very strange idea, I don’t think any of them actually need asylum in any meaningful sense, but if somehow this makes the Farc willing to go ahead then maybe that’s the key,” said Michael Spagat,...
...“If Uribe's allowed to run he's in an extremely strong position, but it's not necessarily a foregone conclusion,” said Michael Shifter, senior analyst at the Inter-American Dialogue, a think-tank in Washington...
...Michael Shifter is vice-president for policy and Vinay Jawahar is programme associate at the Inter-American Dialogue...
...“[Colombian President Alvaro] Uribe’s been sur-prisingly restrained, Lula’s been restrained. But García has few qualms about standing up to Chávez.”...
...A decisive triumph for Álvaro Uribe in Colombia, defeat for Ollanta Humala in Peru, and in Mexico right-winger Felipe Calderón edging ahead in the polls ahead of July's election....
...Colombia’s constitutional court last month upheld an amendment allowing President Alvaro Uribe to seek re-election next year....
...“The current impasse poses perhaps the most significant test of Uribe's political wizardry,” says Michael Shifter, senior analyst at the Inter-American Dialogue, a think-tank in Washington....
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