End of preview - This article contains approximately 1899 words.
Subscribers: Log in now to read the full article
Not a Subscriber?
Choose from one of the following options
Back
Weekly Report - 14 August 2014 (WR-14-32)
Santos rejigs cabinet in final push for peace in Colombia
“Peace, equity and education.” These are the three pillars upon which Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos is promising to build his government. Santos was sworn in for a second term in office on 7 August, striking a delicate balance between the parties that make up his ruling Unidad Nacional (UN) coalition in a reshaped and reshuffled ‘cabinet for peace’. While Santos is keen to move swiftly to conclude the peace process to enable the construction of a country that “nobody can stop”, Colombia’s two main guerrilla groups, Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) and Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), released statements suggesting that they are in no hurry whatsoever.
- Santos rejigs cabinet in final push for peace in Colombia
- VENEZUELA: Colombia fumes over ‘unilateral’ border closures
- BOLIVIA: Reigniting judicial concerns
- TRACKING TRENDS
- BRAZIL: Campos’ death shakes up election campaign
- ARGENTINA: Private solution to debt dispute unlikely
- BRAZIL: Rio and São Paulo at odds over water supply
- CHILE: Bachelet in Africa
- MEXICO: Peña Nieto promulgates energy reform
- MEXICO: Morena makes immediate impact
- NICARAGUA: Wave of dawn arrests and disappearances
- GUATEMALA: Bold plan to drive development
- NORTHERN TRIANGLE: Acting to stem the northbound flow
- Convicted criminals seeking election in Peru
- Quotes of the week