COLOMBIA: IMPLICATIONS OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Created: 5/19/1990

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HOTE FOR: He. Charles Shapiro

SUBJECT: Colombia: Implications of the Presidential

Election

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

The attached paper, Coloniblm: Implications of theconcludes that Liberal Party candidate Cesar Gavirla la an almost certain victor and that he ia likely to continue the basic outlines of the Barco administration's antlnarcotlcs policy. Gavlria will have his hands full as he trie* to sustain public support for this effort in the face of the continuing onslaught by the traffickers. Nevertheless, thehatopponents have deliberatelyofter line against the drug kingpins during the campaign should giveandate for continuing the crackdown If he is electedubntantial margin.

op" you find thin paper useful.,'

Atrlean Mtln American Analysis, DI

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