Weekly Report - 09 January 2014 (WR-14-01)

The high command of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) released a statement on 5 January raising “serious doubts” about the commitment of the “Colombian State and its imperial master” to the peace process in Havana. The Farc secretariat was responding directly to the publication on 21 December of a long and detailed piece of investigative journalism in The Washington Post outlining the extent of the US role in the Colombian military campaign to target the Farc leadership in recent years.