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Weekly Report - 17 January 2013 (WR-13-02)
COLOMBIA: Farc goes on the offensive
Peace talks between the government and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) recommenced in Havana on 14 January in remarkable fashion. The head of the Farc negotiating team, Luciano Marín Arango, ‘Iván Márquez’, accused the government of procrastinating and holding up the agenda of the talks, and called for it to table “clear proposals”. President Juan Manuel Santos took the comment in good heart, saying that he was encouraged by Márquez’s zeal: his predecessor Alvaro Uribe (2002-2010) would have struggled to retain his composure in the face of this criticism from the Farc, past masters at dragging out talks with a dubious commitment to reaching an agreement.
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