Weekly Report - 27 September 2012 (WR-12-38)

President Juan Manuel Santos has been true to his promise, revealing details about the upcoming peace talks with the Fuerzas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) little by little. This week, during various public appearances in the US as part of a short visit to attend the 67^th UN General Assembly debate, he made two particularly interesting ones: a) ‘Alfonso Cano’ (Guillermo León Sáenz) contacted his administration as soon as he took office in August 2010 to begin discussing the possibility of an agreement; and b) he is certain the peace process will be completed within the next calendar year.