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Posted: October 21st, 2015

By Jean-Paul Faguet

Jean-Paul Faguet is Professor of the Political Economy of Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he co-chairs the MSc in Development Management.  He is also Chair of the Decentralization Task Force of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University.  His most recent books include Is Decentralization Good for Development? (Oxford 2015), and Decentralization and Popular Democracy (Michigan 2012).

Colombia is not a “typical” Latin American country.  

It diverges from common views of the region in ways that are interesting and important.  It has a deep democratic vocation, lacking the repeated coups and dictatorships common elsewhere.  Its one military coup was peaceful and initially enjoyed broad support from the political establishment.

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