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#NewWorldReport: Money-laundering and gunfire in Colombia. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

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🗓️ 3 August 2023

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#NewWorldReport: Money-laundering and gunfire in Colombia. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/son-colombias-president-pleads-not-guilty-money-laundering-charges-2023-08-01/

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This is CBS not in the world. The New World Report with Professor Abin Atlas of the US Army

0:29.5

War College Strategic Studies Institute. The headlines from Columbia are both puzzling and alarming.

0:37.2

The son of Columbia's president Gustavo Petro pleads not guilty to money laundering charges.

0:43.2

The money laundering involves we read in the indictment, narco terrorism. At the same time,

0:49.6

Columbia, the headline in Reuters, clashes between gangs military kill at least 20 in Columbia.

0:57.4

At least 20 people killed his Columbia and military personnel clashed with far

1:01.7

dissidents and clandell Gulfo crime gang in different parts of the country.

1:06.9

And then it lists all the provinces where the fighting is ongoing.

1:11.2

I mentioned these two things because Columbia's new president Gustavo Petro has committed

1:16.5

himself to regional peace and regional accommodation, not only of Venezuela, his next-door neighbor,

1:24.0

but also with the remnant of the far gangsters who plundered in the deviled Columbia for years.

1:31.8

And now we have an outbreak of violence. And the president's son linked to narco terrorism

1:37.6

through an indictment for money laundering. And that is also to mention that unresolved right now

1:43.8

are the allegations by a former ambassador to Venezuela from Columbia, Benadetti, his name.

1:50.5

That Gustavo Petro's presidential campaign took money from narco terrorism or some bad actors

1:57.6

via Venezuela. Professor Gustavo Petro looked like a new man, a former terrorist who'd

2:03.7

remade himself and was committing himself from the center left to peace in Columbia.

2:10.4

Now it looks like we're going in another direction. How do you measure these events?

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