19 / 03 / 2010
Colombia: elections show challenges remain for democracy. Democracy Digest.
When Colombia’s Constitutional Court decided to uphold existing presidential term limits in late February and officially block President Álvaro Uribe’s run for a third consecutive term, the Carnegie Endowment’s Robert Kagan observed that democracy had been “stirred, but not shaken.”
But results from Sunday’s legislative elections show that Colombia’s democracy remains under duress and continues to [...]