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Colombia and rebels expected to reveal major breakthrough in peace talks

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...694be6-61f1-11e5-8475-781cc9851652_story.html

HAVANA — Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and the leader of the FARC rebel group were expected to announce a major breakthrough Wednesday in their peace negotiations, which could bring the country to the verge of ending one of the world’s longest-running wars.

The Colombian president arrived Wednesday afternoon in Havana, where formal negotiations between the two sides began in 2012. Also in the city was Timoleon Jimenez, alias “Timochenko,” the elusive commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (known by its Spanish acronym as FARC) who had previously surfaced only in videos recorded from his jungle hideouts.
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Approx 1/4 of a million dead.
Thoughts are?
 
this is just another in a long line of peace negotiations, which are really just an opportunity for both sides to regroup.
 
QuadpolarNutjob said:
this is just another in a long line of peace negotiations, which are really just an opportunity for both sides to regroup.
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FARC is a shadow of its former strength.
 
JANFU said:
FARC is a shadow of its former strength.
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Colombia is a border-line failed state run by warring drug cartels unaffiliated with FARC. if FARC was so weak in comparison, the Colombian government would not be negotiating with them. The mere fact such negotiations are occurring, is proof that Colombia is incapable of defeating them. No, the Colombian government is hurting too, FARC is not their only enemy just the most well publicized. Some of Colombia's cartels move half a billion per week in cocaine. that's a GDP of 21 billion. in a single cartel.


Pablo Escobar and rubber bands - Business Insider

that's escobar. he's done now. but there's no shortage of cocaine. someone is making the profits he is no longer making.
 
QuadpolarNutjob said:
Colombia is a border-line failed state run by warring drug cartels unaffiliated with FARC. if FARC was so weak in comparison, the Colombian government would not be negotiating with them. The mere fact such negotiations are occurring, is proof that Colombia is incapable of defeating them. No, the Colombian government is hurting too, FARC is not their only enemy just the most well publicized. Some of Colombia's cartels move half a billion per week in cocaine. that's a GDP of 21 billion. in a single cartel.

Pablo Escobar and rubber bands - Business Insider

that's escobar. he's done now. but there's no shortage of cocaine. someone is making the profits he is no longer making.
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Well this is up to the Colombians to decide. Yes the cartel have corrupted the govt.
Why is it so hard to follow the money?
Note- Mexico is in worse shape than Columbia.
 
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