Colombia's may 30 pres-idential election seemed like a foregone conclusion. Until a few weeksago, Juan Manuel Santos, defense minister under President Alvaro Uribe from 2006 to mid-2009, held a crushing lead. That made sense: Santos played a key role in Uribe's brass-knuckle security policy, which transformed Colombia from a guerrilla-infested narcostate into a stable, prospering democracy.
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机译：哥伦比亚5月30日的总统选举似乎已成定局。直到几周前，从2006年至2009年中，总统阿尔瓦罗·乌里韦（Alvaro Uribe）领导的国防部长胡安·曼努埃尔·桑托斯（Juan Manuel Santos）仍然保持领先。这是有道理的：桑托斯在乌里韦的铜指安全政策中发挥了关键作用，该政策使哥伦比亚从受到游击队侵害的麻醉者转变为稳定，繁荣的民主国家。
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