Markets in everything?

Who knows, but just maybe:

Doubts about the official version of the rescue surfaced in Switzerland
where a public radio station quoted an unidentified source – "close to
the events, reliable and tested many times in recent years" – saying
$20m was paid to the guerrillas. "It was not a negotiation with the
Farc directly but with a person who is very important in that
organisation, commander César," Frederich Blassel, a journalist with
the Swiss station, told Colombian radio. The reported suggested that a
wife of one of the guards – possibly César – had acted as a go-between
after being arrested by the security forces.

It’s in any case spectacular news and a major blow against terrorism.  Colombia remains an underrated economy and tourist destination and I expect this to serve as a further tipping point toward good things.

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