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Andean Group - November 2014 (ISSN 1741-4466)

Not quite the season of peace and goodwill

Colombia’s peace process has had many ups and downs since it began in November 2012. But recent weeks have been a roller coaster ride. In early November, President Juan Manuel Santos declared that a deal with the leftist guerrilla group Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) was imminent, as he toured Europe in search of support for a post-conflict scenario. A fortnight later, he suspended the talks, after the Farc kidnapped a Colombian army general, the highest-ranking military official ever captured by the guerrilla.

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