President Juan Manuel Santos and the maximum leader of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc),
‘Timochenko’ (Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri), participated in a ceremony on 27 June to mark the completion of the disarmament phase of the peace process. Both men hailed what they claimed marked the definitive end of the longest-running armed conflict in the Americas. But Timochenko took the opportunity to express concern about “the growing paramilitary threat” in Colombia. Just five days earlier the Santos administration ramped up the manhunt for the leader of the country’s largest paramilitary group, ‘Otoniel’ (Dairo Antonio Úsuga), who has evaded capture for two years.End of preview - This article contains approximately 889 words.
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