Maria Velez de Berliner, chief strategy officer at RTG-Red Team Group, Inc.: “With an approval rating of 26 percent, Petro is in trouble but not out. The scandals involving Sarabia and Benedetti have been overshadowed by the so-called cease-fire agreement with the Central Command of the National Liberation Army (ELN), the rescue of the four children from Amazonia and the mysterious death of Colonel Óscar Dario Dávila. Nannygate and Benedettigate will follow their course through Colombia’s corrupt justice system to be replaced by other scandals, and Petro will survive with diminished popularity and governability. He has survived scandals because a coup (hard or soft) is not Colombia’s way of solving presidential crises. Petro will continue to stumble through his remaining three and a half years, surrounded by his most inner circle, periodically taking to the streets to pressure Congress into enacting his three major reforms: health, pensions and…”
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