Ambassador Kevin Whitaker walks us through one of the most significant polticial events in Colombia’s history: its recent election of outsider candidate Gustavo Petro. How have political parties lost their ability to mediate between voters and their governments? How has this given rise to populism, nationalism, and more importantly, a global competition of fundamental systems of government?
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