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Weekly Report - 19 April 2018 (WR-18-15)

COLOMBIA-ECUADOR: Uniting to fight a common enemy

The governments of Colombia and Ecuador are mounting an offensive against dissidents from the demobilised Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) operating on the shared border, but the level of security cooperation appears to be the cause of some bilateral diplomatic tensions. This comes after Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno confirmed that three people working for the country’s national daily El Comercio kidnapped last month had been murdered by a group of Farc dissidents led by ‘Guacho’ (Walter Patricio Arizala Vernaza), which has now taken an Ecuadorean couple hostage.

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