Events in the last week have left Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos in a stronger position to achieve the “complete peace” he craves before he leaves office in August 2018. On 12 January Santos announced that the former head of the national police, retired General Oscar Naranjo, would imminently replace Germán Vargas Lleras as vice-president. Four days later Santos swore in Fernando Carrillo to the powerful post of prosecutor general, replacing Alejandro Ordóñez. Vargas Lleras offered equivocal support for the peace process while Ordóñez was openly hostile. Naranjo and Carrillo are firm adherents. To cap things off, the government reached an agreement on 18 January with the country’s second-largest guerrilla group, the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), to launch formal talks.End of preview - This article contains approximately 1076 words.
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