Just over a week before President Juan Manuel Santos announced his agreement to negotiate an early bilateral ceasefire with the FARC, the teams negotiating the overall peace agreement in Havana had reached an understanding on a sensitive matter: determining the fate of the people reported disappeared since the beginning of the internal conflict ― a huge, complex undertaking. This was hailed by Santos as ‘another step towards peace’. Within days he was lamenting a step in the opposite direction by the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN, the second-largest guerrilla group) which could derail the launch of formal peace negotiations with that organisation.End of preview - This article contains approximately 2041 words.
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