Juan Manuel Santos, a Cabinet minister in three administrations and grandnephew of a president, was in a statistical dead heat in pre-election polls with Antanas Mockus, the son of Lithuanian immigrants and a former two-time Bogota mayor running on the Green Party slate. The two lead a field of nine candidates and if none wins a simple majority the two top vote-getters will meet in a June 20 runoff. Santos, 58, bills himself as a continuation of President Uribe's hugely popular U.S-backed security campaign against leftist rebels that has sharply curtailed kidnapping and murder rates. A child of privilege and University of Kansas graduate whose family long ran El Tiempo,...
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