Across the Americas

Hello, everyone. Thank you for visiting. “Plan Colombia and Beyond” is no longer active, as I – the blog’s principal author – have moved to the Washington Office on Latin America, where I’m directing WOLA’s security policy program. Now that my transition to WOLA is complete, I’ve begun blogging often at the site of the CIP-WOLA-LAWG [...]

With all the usual caveats about polling in Colombia, just look at this chart of all the polls I’ve seen in the past 30 days or so. They show a steady but mounting momentum in favor of former Bogotá mayor Antanas Mockus. The latest Ipsos-Napoleón Franco poll, released late yesterday, gives Mockus the lead for the [...]