Paloma Starts Weak in the Caribbean, and Seeks to Compensate with Traditional

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Every time Álvaro Uribe visits Barranquilla he says that the city is his “difficult girlfriend.” With the results of his candidate Paloma Valencia’s consultation, the phrase could be applied to the entire Caribbean, one of the regions where Uribismo was the worst, in contrast to its success in other parts of the country. That has sparked alarms in Caribbean Uribismo about the dispute with aspiring Abelardo de la Espriella for the second round. P…