Limits to reform
Time is starting to run out for the government
ANDRES PASTRANA has never been short of problems. Since becoming president in 1998, he has grappled not just with a drug-fuelled internal war, but with Colombia's first economic recession since the 1930s and public disenchantment with a self-serving Congress. Now his efforts to deliver reform are being rebuffed.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Limits to reform”
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