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Weekly Report - 18 August 2022 (WR-22-33)
COLOMBIA: Petro moves to unpick Duque’s legacy on Venezuela and ELN
Gustavo Petro has wasted little time since he was inaugurated as Colombia’s first left-wing president on 7 August. With his government having presented its much-awaited tax reform bill the day after he took office [WR-22-32], Petro has now turned his attention to two other thorny issues – peace negotiations with the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) guerrilla group, and the normalisation of relations with President Nicolás Maduro’s government in Venezuela.
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