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FORMER FARC LEADERS REARM: WHAT’S NEXT FOR COLOMBIA’S FRAGILE PEACE?

Former FARC commanders Iván Márquez, Jesús Santrich and El Paisa have announced that they are rearming less than three years after signing a peace agreement with the State. Alfred Davies reports for BristoLatino on what this announcement might mean for peace in Colombia.  The peace process in Colombia was dealt a severe blow at the end […]

Election tremors, but Colombia’s peace rolls on

  BristoLatino political editor, Hermione Greenhalgh, spoke to the Colombian Ambassador to the UK about the presidential elections.   Today (Sunday 27 May) Colombia will pick its new President. With the peace process between the state and the FARC underway, these elections will be the first in living memory that have not occurred against a […]