Waging Peace in Colombia
To commemorate its founding 25 years ago, PS is republishing a selection of commentaries written since 1994. In the following commentary, Juan Manuel Santos touted the peace process that ended the long and costly war between Colombia’s government and the FARC guerillas.
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BOGOTÁ – Colombians are close to ending the oldest and only remaining armed conflict in the Western Hemisphere. After more than five years of negotiations with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), we can say that we have reached an irreversible phase in a process that will put an end to more than 50 years of a cruel and costly war.