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Weekly Report - 10 November 2011 (WR-11-45)
COLOMBIA: Santos delivers hammer blow to Farc
The answer was as emphatic as it gets. Just days after former president Alvaro Uribe (2002-2010) criticised his successor Juan Manuel Santos of presiding over the progressive demoralisation of the armed forces, Santos could legitimately claim that the military had delivered “the most crushing blow against the Farc in its entire history”. The surgical strike that accounted for the top leader of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, Guillermo León Sáenz, Alfonso Cano, was the most eloquent response to Uribe - it is the Farc that will now be demoralised. Cano’s death also definitively vanquished the myth of Farc invincibility: more and more senior Farc figures have been killed in recent years but never the group’s maximum leader.
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