Colombia gov’t, FARC rebels start peace talks again

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PEACE TALKS. Colombian members of FARC-EP leftist guerrillas delegation, commanders Ivan Marquez (C) and Rodrigo Granda (L) arrive at Convention Palace in Havana for the peace talks with the Colombian government, on November 19, 2012. AFP PHOTO/ADALBERTO ROQUE
Colombia’s leftist FARC rebels declared a unilateral two-month ceasefire on November 19 as they began talks in Cuba with the Bogota government on ending Latin America’s longest-running insurgency. But the government of President Juan Manuel Santos immediately made clear it would not be bound by the ceasefire and military operations against the FARC would continue. Here in the Philippines, the government has just signed a peace plan with a major rebel group in the south, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Work and negotiations toward a final peace agreement and legislative measure the Aquino government is aiming to pass before 2016 are underway.


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