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Weekly Report - 16 March 2017 (WR-17-10)
COLOMBIA: Odebrecht mars Vargas Lleras’ big day
Vice-President Germán Vargas Lleras formally stepped down this week in order to clear the way for a tilt at the presidency in 2018. Until recently Vargas Lleras had been seen as a strong contender to succeed Santos, but there were signs that his equivocal stance on the peace accord with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) could leave him sidelined in what looks like being a polarised campaign around this issue. His unofficial campaign launch was also overshadowed by the encroaching cloud of scandal surrounding the activities of Odebrecht in Colombia after it transpired that the Brazilian firm supplied financing in 2010 for the victorious presidential campaign of Juan Manuel Santos. The scandal is politically damaging, not least because Santos has made a big point of the need to extirpate corruption from public life.
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