Colombia: From Almost Failed State to Global Player, in Less than a Decade (Time magazine)

As Juan Manuel Santos, the recent host of the VI Summit of the Americas, sits down with TIME journalists at the presidential palace in Bogotá, he checks his watch. Colombia's President isn't being rude; it's just that any minute now, 250 km to the south, Marxist guerrillas will release their last 10 military and police hostages ... to continue reading this article, you must be a Time subscriber

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