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Decoding photos of opposing sides embracing.
How true are photos in which members of opposing sides of Colombia's conflict embrace?
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Accepting drug trafficking as a political crime is a grand money laundering...
President Santos proposed that we consider drug trafficking a political crime. But to accept the FARC’s narco past as a political crime is to open the door for the U.S. not to ask for their...
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Colombia’s Attorney General Ordoñez is doing his job.
Attorney General Alejandro Ordoñez said, “The office of the attorney general has said yes to peace, we want there to be a successful peace, but not with the absence of imprisonment for those...
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FARC leaders said they are Christians.
An American preacher, Russell Martin Stendal, estimated that 10 per cent of the members of the FARC are Christians. FARC commander Ivan Marquez said FARC leaders Jesús Santrich, Yuri Camargo and Noel...
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How could any of this be the result of 33 months of talking peace?
Emerging facts would prompt the child, who called out the naked emperor, to shout, "But how could any of this be the result of 33 months of talking peace?"
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Videos from 2014 show FARC continue training minors – despite peace talks.
Last week, FARC negotiators said that though they agreed to stop recruiting children under 17, they never agreed to release children already in the group. Videos from late 2014 show camps, where minors...
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Journalist Antonio Salas on “How is a Terrorist Made?”
In 2006, Antonio Salas, an under-cover investigative reporter, set off for Venezuela because, he said, “the place in the world where a terrorist can be born was Venezuela." In Venezuela, he found the...
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With transitional justice on the table, peace talks appear to be at an impasse.
The deputy prosecutor for the International Criminal Court again highlighted that those responsible for heinous crimes need to be punished. The FARC say they will not serve one day in prison....
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Today, May 27: 51st Anniversary of the Battle of Marquetalia, which led to...
Today, May 27, marks the 51st anniversary of the FARC’s founding. FROM THE ARCHIVES: This video, made by the FARC, explains the FARC version of how the conflict began: May 1964: One thousand and two...
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What Peace? Where is the Rule of Law?
Whatever happens on October 2nd, when Colombians vote on a referendum on the result of an accord between the FARC and the government, Colombia will not be “at peace.” We need state-building; the...
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