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Weekly Report - 24 August 2017 (WR-17-33)

COLOMBIA: Farc facing the challenge of political campaigning

These are times of enormous change for the former guerrilla group Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc). The Farc’s 52-year-long armed rebellion officially ended on 15 August with the removal of the last batch of its weapons from various sites around the country as part of the disarmament process supervised by the United Nations (UN). Days later the Farc’s maximum leader, ‘Timochenko’ (Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri), flew into Bogotá from Cuba to attend a congress which is being held in order to establish a new peaceful political party. There is a lot riding on the transition.

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