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Weekly Report - 26 April 2012 (WR-12-16)
New party or rebirth of Farc’s party?
More than 80,000 people marched in Colombia on Monday to the Plaza Bolívar in Bogotá, witnessing the birth of a new left-wing political party. Known as the Marcha Patriótica, the event marked the creation of the Consejo Patriótico Nacional (CPN); however, the outfit has already been widely criticised by politicians and local analysts who argue that it has not emerged from the democratic process that strengthens modern republics. Instead, they hold that, like the Unión Patriótica (UP) in the 1980s, it is the legal political arm of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc).
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