Andean Group - February 2013 (ISSN 1741-4466)

Negotiators from both the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) and the government of President Manuel Santos continue to insist that peace talks in Havana, Cuba are going well. At the end of the last round of talks, Rodrigo Granda, a senior Farc leader, claimed discussions were moving “at the speed of a bullet train”; the government negotiator, Humberto de la Calle, was more measured, but still positive: “the pace has improved; we have to maintain and preserve it”. Still, an upsurge in violence since the end of the Farc’s ceasefire on 20 January represents a serious challenge to any potential break-through, and raises the question of whether the guerrilla’s negotiators in Cuba have the full backing of all the units on the ground.

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