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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 23 March 2018

COLOMBIA: Farc dissidents provide major headache

At least nine former guerrillas who refused to demobilise after the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) signed a peace accord with the government were killed during a joint military and police operation in the southern department of Guaviare this week. One of those killed, known by the alias ‘El Mocho’, was the chief lieutenant of the leader of the Farc’s former Frente Primero, ‘Gentil Duarte’ (Miguel Botache Santillana), who has become the most-wanted man in Colombia. The swelling number of Farc dissidents is putting pressure on the peace accord and raising fears that they could become the key player in the drug trade.

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