Take the first left? Colombia’s election
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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POLLS SUGGEST // Polls suggest the country might get its first-ever leftist leader. Whatever the outcome, a fresh outbreak of violent protest may await. Africa’s increasingly crippling fuel shortages can be blamed on more than just higher prices. And reflecting on the life of Lawrence MacEwen, laird of a tiny Scottish island whose austere simplicity he fought to preserve.
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| 0:59.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from the economist. In New York, I'm John Fastman. |
| 1:04.8 | And in London, I'm Jason Palmer. Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events |
| 1:10.1 | shaping your world. |
| 1:12.9 | Flights from South Africa to Europe have been cancelled. |
| 1:16.4 | Lions at petrol stations in Cameroon extend onto the highway. |
| 1:20.3 | In Burundi, drivers sleep in station four courts. |
| 1:23.9 | Africa is running low on fuel, and it's beginning to slow commerce |
| 1:27.7 | and make governments nervous. |
| 1:31.8 | And off the west coast of Scotland |
| 1:33.9 | is a tiny island called Muck. |
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