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Security & Strategic Review - October 2015 (ISSN 1741-4202)
COLOMBIA: Addressing the ‘disappearances’ & talks with ELN
Just over a week before President Juan Manuel Santos announced his agreement to negotiate an early bilateral ceasefire with the FARC, the teams negotiating the overall peace agreement in Havana had reached an understanding on a sensitive matter: determining the fate of the people reported disappeared since the beginning of the internal conflict ― a huge, complex undertaking. This was hailed by Santos as ‘another step towards peace’. Within days he was lamenting a step in the opposite direction by the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN, the second-largest guerrilla group) which could derail the launch of formal peace negotiations with that organisation.
- Santos now says a bilateral ceasefire could be in place by year-end
- COLOMBIA: Addressing the ‘disappearances’ & talks with ELN
- VENEZUELA: Border measures to last beyond elections
- PERU: Military ‘victory’ called into question
- POINTERS
- MEXICO: Another ‘near miss’ in the hunt for ‘el Chapo’
- MEXICO: Where the guns have been turning up
- POINTERS
- CHILE: Calls for tougher response as attacks multiply in the south
- POINTERS
- EL SALVADOR: Violence escalates as gangs fight on two fronts
- POINTERS