Subject: Re: Columbians to allow deportation flights
I take it you did not read that analysis of Colombia's political landscape that I lonked the other day.

Briefly. But I'm not lauding Colombia as a paradise on earth. Rather, that they have a relatively stable government that recently underwent a successful transition of power through a democratic election in 2022 and the 2016 Peace Accord with FARC seems to be holding. That's a pretty good result for a modest amount of foreign aid, relative to the costs associated with having a country riven by civil war (or a failed state) in the region.