Colombia Braces for Elections Under Shadow of Violence

2026-03-03 - 12:03

Key Points — Colombia deploys 246,000 security personnel to protect 12,264 polling stations for March 8 legislative elections after politician kidnappings, drone threats, and 457 death threats — Last summer’s assassination of Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay, the first political assassination of its kind in decades, has transformed the security calculus for the entire electoral cycle