Weekly Report - 22 October 2015 (WR-15-42)

Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos joined victims of the country’s armed conflict this week in celebrating an accord struck in Cuba to locate, exhume and return dead and disappeared nationals. The Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) promised to provide all relevant information to help end the uncertainty that has hung over many families for years. The accord comes at a time of sharpened political tensions over the peace process away from the negotiating table. Former president Andrés Pastrana (1998-2002) abandoned the peace advisory commission on 15 October and then suggested that he might have been the intended target of a fatal plane crash in Bogotá four days later.

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