A young senator in Colombia was recently elected on the basis of his YouTube campaigns against corruption and excessive government spending. And now, he’s trying to get his fellow members of Congress to vote to lower their own salaries. As Manuel Rueda reports from Bogotá, there’s a huge gap between the salaries of congressional representatives and the average worker in Colombia.
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