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Weekly Report - 25 February 2016 (WR-16-08)
COLOMBIA: Armed Farc rally puts paid to peace deadline
President Juan Manuel Santos warned the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) in no uncertain terms this week that “time is running out” to conclude the peace talks by 23 March. Santos was forced to toughen up his rhetoric after the head of the Farc negotiating team in Cuba, ‘Iván Márquez’ (Luciano Marín Arango), led a rally in northern Colombia protected by heavily armed guerrillas. Santos accused the Farc of “[failing to] break the link between weapons and politics”. After several days of frantic mediation by the guarantor nations of the peace talks, the two sides agreed to “overcome recent differences”, but it has all taken up precious time and too many thorny issues remain for the deadline to conclude the talks to be met.
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