The peace process is on rocky ground. The errant number two of the Fuerza Alternativa Revolucionaria del Común (Farc), Luciano Marín Arango (‘Iván Márquez’), the Farc’s chief peace negotiator in Cuba, reappeared this week; not in person but epistolary form. Márquez sent a letter to the senate’s peace commission savaging the implementation of the peace accord, for which he justified his going into hiding. The Farc swiftly distanced itself from Márquez, but top-level divisions in the nascent political party, in conjunction with the tougher stance of the new government under President Iván Duque, evidenced this week by the rolling out of a hardline counter-narcotics strategy, could push more demobilised guerrillas towards illegal armed groups in Colombia.End of preview - This article contains approximately 1277 words.
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