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Weekly Report - 17 March 2016 (WR-16-11)

COLOMBIA: Santos straining to secure breakthrough

President Juan Manuel Santos dispatched his brother Enrique Santos to hold an urgent meeting with the maximum leader of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) ‘Timochenko’ (Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri), in Cuba on 14 March, nine days before an agreed deadline for a peace accord to be struck. It is not the first time Enrique Santos has been used as a mediator at a difficult juncture in the talks, and this latest meeting was scheduled after it became apparent that the deadline would not be met and that despite both sides intensifying efforts to ensure that significant progress could be announced on the day, differences over future ‘concentration zones’ for Farc guerrillas have conspired against a possible agreement on a bilateral ceasefire.

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