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Security & Strategic Review - April 2015 (ISSN 1741-4202)
After the deadliest Farc attack both sides agree to go on talking
For those who are sceptical about or oppose the peace negotiations between the Colombian government and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) guerrillas, now about to enter its 36th round, a guerrilla attack which in mid-April claimed the lives of 11 soldiers was proof that President Juan Manuel Santos had been too naive or trusting, and that the unilateral, indefinite ceasefire declared by the Farc in December had been a sham. As the noise recedes, the facts outline a more complex picture.
- After the deadliest Farc attack both sides agree to go on talking
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- PARAGUAY: New ‘guerrillas’ dismissed as ‘common criminals’
- BRAZIL: Rio to ‘strengthen’ UPPs in Alemão & Penha complexes
- POINTERS
- EL SALVADOR: Maras divided over offensive and new ‘truce’ initiative
- GUATEMALA: Pérez Molina agrees to extend CICIG’s mandate
- POINTERS
- MEXICO-US: Upward trend in US military training
- MEXICO-US: Most guns come from up north
- POINTERS
- PERU: ‘Elimination of narcoterrorism by 2016’
- POINTERS