Leeward: we meet South Korea’s probable president

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  The Economist.

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  Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist.

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  I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

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  Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

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  Back in 2016, as Colombia's violent paramilitary group, the FARC, disbanded, Colombians hoped for a long peace.

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  But in one region,

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  another guerrilla group now wants supremacy and is terrorizing the public

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  and hunting down former FARC members with impunity.

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  And our obituary's editor pays tribute to Marianne Faithfull.

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  For better and for worse, the British singer's life intersected the era of free love, the Rolling Stones, William S.

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  Burroughs, and epic amounts of heroin.

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  But hers is most of all a redemption story.

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  First up, though, back in December,

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  South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol sent troops streaming into the national assembly,

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  part of his attempt to impose martial law.

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  As the chaos played out, Lee Jae Myung, leader of the opposition Democratic Party, streamed it.

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  This is serious, vigorous democracy.

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  Mr.

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  Lee scaled the walls of Parliament to help put a stop to what was seen as a self coup.

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  It's been two months since that night, and South Korea is still in limbo.

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