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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.