domingo, junio 20, 2010

Santos Wins Colombia Runoff Election - NYTimes.com

NYTimes.com, Bogotá, AP, 20/06/2010 08:55 ET, extracto/excerpt.-

A former defense minister from a powerful political clan who oversaw a major weakening of leftist rebels won Colombia's presidency Sunday, routing an eccentric outsider in a runoff.

The victory for Juan Manuel Santos, a 58-year-old economist and three-time government minister, was a ringing endorsement of outgoing conservative President Alvaro Uribe, whose U.S.-backed security policies he helped craft and promised to continue.

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