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The Counterinsurgency Strategy of President Álvaro Uribe: Plan for Victory or Recipe for a Crisis? WP7-2003 - 15.2.2003 (Translation from Spanish) Román D. Ortiz The internal conflict Colombia has suffered from for decades appears now to have reached a critical phase. Up until recently Bogotá governments employed a strategy combining repression and negotiation to tackle threats ranging from left-wing guerrilla groups, extreme right-wing paramilitaries and a variety of narcotics organisations. In 2002, the collapse of the Pastrana Administration’s peace talks with the rebels and the election of Álvaro Uribe as incoming President marked a turning point in the situation in Colombia
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