Weekly Report - 06 September 2018 (WR-18-35)

One year on from its formal baptism as a political party bearing the same initials, the re-styled Fuerza Alternativa Revolucionaria del Común (Farc) is confronting a serious internal rift. On the one side, the maximum leader of the Farc, Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri (‘Timochenko’), is determined to embrace party politics in Colombia. On the other, Luciano Marín Arango (‘Iván Márquez’), the number two in the Farc who negotiated the peace accord between the guerrilla group and the previous government, has not been seen for months, having retreated to a rural area of Farc influence in southern Colombia in April after renouncing his position as a senator.

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