COLOMBIA: IMPLICATIONS OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Created: 5/19/1990

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FOR: He. Charles Shapiro

SUBJECT: Colombia: Implications of the Presidential Election

Deputy Director, Office of Andean Affairs, ARA, Department of State

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The attached paper, Colombia: lerolications of the. Pr^idonXLal^Lo^UOT, concludes that Ubsral Party candidate Cesar Gaviriaan almost certain victor and that he ia likely to continue the basic outlines of the Barco administration's aiitlnarcotica policy. Gavlrla will have his hands full as he tries to sustain public support for thfe effort in the face of the continuing onslaught by tho traffickers. Nevertheless, thehatopponents have deliberatelyofter lino against the drug kingpins during the campaign ahould giveandate for continuing the crackdown if he is electedubntantial margin.