Tag: FARC

• Tuesday, September 24th 2013 - 07:52 UTC

  Santos accepts with ‘prudence’ Mujica’s offer to host peace talks with Colombia’s ELN guerrilla

  

  President Juan Manuel Santos was grateful and ‘accepted with prudence’ his Uruguayan peer Jose Mujica offer to host a peace-talks process in Montevideo with the other big guerrilla movement in Colombia, the ELN, National Liberation Army

• Wednesday, September 18th 2013 - 20:55 UTC

  FARC reiterate call for a Colombia truth commission at Havana peace talks

  

  Colombia’s Marxist rebel organization, FARC reiterated on Wednesday its call to the Colombian government to establish a truth commission to deal with the history of the internal conflict in the country that goes back to 1964.

• Wednesday, September 18th 2013 - 01:47 UTC

  Mujica to address UN assembly on 28 September; meeting with several Latam presidents

  

  Uruguay’s president Jose Mujica will be attending the UN 68th General Assembly on the last week of September in New York, where he is scheduled to meet with several of his Latinamerica peers and the Secretary General Ban-Ki-moon.

• Tuesday, September 3rd 2013 - 23:53 UTC

  Colombia/FARC peace talks at a ‘critical’ stage says government negotiator

  

  Colombia's peace talks with Marxist FARC rebels have reached a “critical” stage, with discussions over the next couple of months a key gauge of whether an end to five decades of war is likely or not, government negotiator Sergio Jaramillo said on Tuesday.

• Tuesday, September 3rd 2013 - 01:42 UTC

  Colombia government warns effective peace conditions with FARC could take ten years

  

  The head of the Colombian negotiation team Humberto de la Calle cautioned on Monday that in case a definitive agreement is reached with the FARC rebel forces, (Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces), peace could reach ten years after the ratification of the accord.

• Wednesday, August 28th 2013 - 01:11 UTC

  Santos prepared to talk with FARC leader Timochenko to accelerate peace talks

  

  Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has confirmed that he would consider meeting FARC rebel leader Timochenko to accelerate talks aimed at ending 50 years of conflict but warned the nation will continue at war if Colombians reject what is agreed at the negotiating table.

• Monday, August 26th 2013 - 02:00 UTC

  Colombia and FARC resume peace negotiations; 13 soldiers killed by the guerrilla

  

  Colombia’s government announced that peace talks with the country’s largest guerrilla organization FARC were resuming despite the insurgents killed 13 soldiers Saturday in an ambush. The chief government negotiator said both sides would be back at the table on Monday morning in Havana where the negotiations are taking place.

• Tuesday, August 13th 2013 - 02:22 UTC

  Kerry calls Colombia a ‘success story’ and promised strong support for peace talks

  

  Secretary of State John Kerry promised strong US backing for peace talks aimed at ending Colombia's half century of conflict, calling the country a success story in a world where many states have failed or are failing.

• Friday, August 9th 2013 - 04:41 UTC

  Santos warns FARC if peace talks collapse they will end in “the grave or in prison”

  

  Colombia's FARC rebel leaders negotiating peace with the government must return to the jungle and end their days on the battlefield or in prison if talks under way in Cuba collapse, warned President Juan Manuel Santos.

• Monday, July 29th 2013 - 06:18 UTC

  Colombia government and FARC resume peace negotiations despite armed clashes

  

  Colombian government and Marxist-inspired-drugs-funded FARC rebels resumed peace negotiations in Havana on Sunday after a recess of more than two weeks, during which 19 soldiers and a number of rebels were killed and rural protests left four farmers dead and several police injured.