India and Pakistan are accelerating a largely underexamined arms buildup. After last year鈥檚 military clash, the shift toward faster, less predictable technologies is raising new concerns about future confrontation between old rivals.
Clayton Collins
Welcome to your Saturday Daily.聽
There鈥檚 a lot of news to think about. What makes Sunday鈥檚 presidential election in Colombia relevant to you? Broadly, it鈥檚 a democracy鈥檚 classic test: how to mirror a society鈥檚 shifting priorities by giving its citizenry an opportunity to set them. In Colombia, that has already taken some work.聽
鈥淲hat this [current] government has done is to change Colombia,鈥 a political risk analyst in Bogot谩 tells reporter Manuel Rueda, 鈥渇rom being a single-issue country, focused on security, to a country that has many different issues.鈥 Voters鈥 choices will reverberate in Latin America and beyond.
We make another stop today in the region. Find our essayist鈥檚 remembrance of a cloud forest encounter with a ruby-throated hummingbird in Ecuador 鈥 and see how it chimed with a life experience at a grandparent鈥檚 home in upstate New York.聽
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As always, watch our homepage聽or app for news developments, including about what appears to be a pending U.S.-Iran deal to extend talks on the Islamic Republic鈥檚 nuclear capabilities.