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Weekly Report - 30 January 2014 (WR-14-04)
COLOMBIA: Farc leadership tries to smarten up its act
The secretariat, or high command, of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) took unprecedented action on 24 January. Not only did it concede that a motorbike bombing in the municipality of Pradera in the south-western department of Valle del Cauca, which claimed one life and left 61 people injured eight days earlier, had been carried out by a Farc unit but it also admonished the guerrillas responsible. This is the first time the secretariat has ever publicly condemned an attack and reproved the guerrillas behind it. This strongly suggests that the Farc leadership is acutely conscious that it must improve its image if the public is to grant any indulgence to the Farc at all in an eventual referendum on the peace process.
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