BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s president issued a decree Friday giving him emergency powers to restore order in a coca-growing region bordering Venezuela wracked in recent days by a deadly turf war among dissident rebel groups.
BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia’s president issued a decree Friday giving him emergency powers to restore order in a coca-growing region bordering Venezuela wracked in recent days by a deadly turf war among dissident rebel groups.
It is the first time in more than a decade that a Colombian president has used such an extreme tactic and underscores the seriousness of the current conflict in a country that for decades was paralyzed by political violence.
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