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Weekly Report - 24 November 2016 (WR-16-46)

COLOMBIA: Santos moves ahead without support of ‘no’ camp

As we go to press President Juan Manuel Santos and the maximum leader of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc), ‘Timochenko’ (Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri) are signing a revised peace accord in the Teatro Colón de Bogotá. There will be none of the pomp and ceremony which surrounded the signing of the first peace accord in Cartagena de Indias on 26 September, which was subsequently rejected in a national referendum six days later. This is because despite the government’s negotiating team extracting some compromises from the Farc, these were not sufficient for the politicians who led the ‘no’ campaign, spearheaded by former president Alvaro Uribe (2002-2010), to throw their weight behind the revised accord.

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