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Weekly Report - 13 October 2016 (WR-16-40)
COLOMBIA: Santos launches two new peace negotiations
It has been a rollercoaster week for President Juan Manuel Santos. No sooner was he awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to seal a peace accord with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) than his government embarked on a second process of negotiations with representatives of the victorious ‘no’ camp which could sabotage it. While the most visible figurehead of the ‘no’ vote, former president Alvaro Uribe (2002-2010), expressed his commitment to peace, he could prove to be an even tougher negotiator than the Farc. Just as a working table began discussing Uribe’s proposals to revise the peace accord, the government announced the formal launch of a peace process with Colombia’s second largest guerrilla group, the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN).
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- BRAZIL: Temer pushes ahead with austerity plan
- MEXICO: Resurgence of violence poses political problem
- TRACKING TRENDS
- HAITI: A new humanitarian crisis
- HONDURAS: Shadows lengthen again
- Peru and Ecuador focus on energy integration
- Quotes of the week