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Andean Group - September 2016 (ISSN 1741-4466)

Peace deal with the Farc secured; Colombia prepares for political battle for peace

After almost four years of difficult negotiations in Havana, Cuba, the negotiating teams representing the Colombian government and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc), the country’s largest leftist guerrilla group, announced on 24 August that they had reached a definitive bilateral peace deal. The deal, which would put an end to Colombia’s 52-year internal armed conflict, was formally signed by President Juan Manuel Santos and the Farc’s main leader, ‘Timochenko’ (Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri), in Cartagena de Indias on 26 September. With the accord now set to be subjected to approval by the public in a national referendum on 2 October, it is being analysed in detail to try to determine whether it is viable or unviable, as argued by its opponents.

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