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20 hours agoI hope our comrade Cepeda wins': Armed groups are poisoning Colombia's elections
A high-pitched voice, recorded somewhere in Guaviare, at the gateway to the Amazon in southern Colombia, echoed across the country on Thursday. I hope our comrade [Ivan] Cepeda wins, because then we'll really put the pressure on them for another four years, says the man, a purported leader of one of the many dissident groups of the now-defunct Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Cepeda the leftist presidential candidate, leading in the polls has rejected any support from the armed groups that terrorize hundreds of thousands of Colombians every day, but the audio is a reminder of the power these underground forces can wield in an election.
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