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Security & Strategic Review - May 2014 (ISSN 1741-4202)
First-round upset for Santos raises doubts about future of peace talks
It took two rounds of talks, but on 16 May the Colombian government and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) guerrillas were able to announce that they had reached agreement on a number of core issues related to ‘the problem of illicit drugs’. That same day the Farc and the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) jointly announced unilateral ceasefires from just before to just after the 25 May first round of presidential elections. Then came a jolt: the winner in that contest was Óscar Iván Zuluaga of former president Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010)’s Centro Democrático, a harsh critics of the peace talks committed to suspending them if elected in the second round.
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