BOGOTA, October 31, 2007 (LPAC)--Samuel Moreno Rojas, the candidate for mayor of Colombia's capital, Bogota, around whose campaign the LaRouche Youth Movement mobilized support for LaRouche's World Land-Bridge strategy, won the elections yesterday by a wide margin: 43.7% vs. his leading opponent's 28%. Moreno provoked the oligarchy's hysteria by refusing to back down from his promise to build a subway for the city, despite the oligarchy's fanatic insistence that Colombia "cannot afford" even this most minimal form of modern transportation.

The LYM told Bogota's citizens they should not only fight for their right to a subway, but for Colombia to participate in the biggest project of them all: the unification of the Eurasian landmass and the Americas by a railroad running through a tunnel under the Bering Strait, down through North and Central America, crossing into South America through the jungle terrain of the Darien Gap which lies on the border between Panama and Colombia.

The LYM organized in the streets and universities, distributing more than 70,000 leaflets headlined "Vote for the Darien Gap Train and the Subway for Bogota," an idea for which they found enthusiastic support. The leaflet by the President of the LaRouche Association of Colombia, Maximiliano Londono, laid out the crucial role Colombia must play in LaRouche's grand strategy to secure a peaceful passage from today's collapse to a new world financial system, by nations uniting to build this global railway for development.

Since it is the nation's capital, the Mayor of Bogota is considered the second most important political post in the country. Moreno insists that "each and every one of his planks will be carried out," and the night of his victory, announced that he would meet immediately with President Alvaro Uribe to coordinate plans, despite Uribe and his Finance Minister's hysterical insistence that there is no money to build a subway in the capital, never mind railroads in the country. Moreno assumes office on January 1, 2008.