The acting mayor of San
Vicente del Caguan, Arcenio Novoa, says the bomb exploded Tuesday in
the town’s central square. He says it appeared directed at a police
patrol.
Novoa said the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, were suspected.
San Vicente, located in the southern Caqueta department, hosted failed peace talks from 1998-2002 between the FARC and the government of then-President Andres Pastrana.
Pastrana
had demilitarized a Switzerland-sized swath of territory to facilitate
the talks, which fell apart in large part because the rebels continued
to kidnap and run drug. (AP)