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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 30 November 2018

COLOMBIA: ELN talks founder, Farc peace under threat

The vision of a consolidated ‘complete peace’ in Colombia envisioned by former president Juan Manuel Santos (2010-2018) always looked chimeric if his government could not conclude a peace accord with the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) guerrilla group before he left office in August. And so it has proven. President Iván Duque, critical of what he views as the Santos administration’s excessive concessions to the country’s guerrillas, and having already suspended talks with the ELN, was unswayed by the group’s decision last week to draft its maximum leader ‘Gabino’ (Nicolás Rodríguez Bautista) on to its negotiating team. His government has not unpicked the peace accord with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) as some feared. The slow pace of implementation two years on from its signing has raised concerns that the accord could unravel, although two recent developments could help to entrench it.

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