Posted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 3, 2012 | War and peace
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos will announce the beginning of formal peace talks with the FARC on Tuesday, radio station Caracol reported Monday. Several media reported that the president has been finalizing the speech in...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 3, 2012 | News
Members of the Colombian armed forces have killed 10 FARC guerrillas in combat, the country’s defense minister said Monday. The rebels were killed in combat in the southern departments of Guaviare and Caqueta departments....
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 3, 2012 | Disinformation
Colombian television network Caracol has purchased the rights to broadcast an announced rap battle between rookies of Colombia’s police and underage members of guerrilla group FARC. The rap battle is part of a preliminary...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 3, 2012 | Guests
Colombia’s “peace talks” are destined to fail, because such negotiations are a repetition of similar attempts of the last 30 years and conditions are no different now than they were in the past. Recent news about the possibility...
Read MorePosted by Adriaan Alsema | Sep 2, 2012 | Guests
With the announcement of peace talks, Colombians have heard many different definitions of peace from many different political figures over the last week or so; many may not be that different from those of the past four decades....
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