Santos sends brother to Cuba to break deadlock in FARC peace talks
Santos sends brother to Cuba to break deadlock in FARC peace talks
Posted by Stephen Gill on Mar 15, 2016
Colombia’s president has sent his brother to Cuba to break an apparent deadlock in peace talks with leftist FARC rebels.
Enrique Santos, the older brother of President Juan Manuel Santos, traveled to Cuba on Monday to meet with FARC chief “Timochenko” about the remaining points on the peace talks agenda.
The government and the FARC have been talking since late 2012 and are currently in the final stretch of the talks that are now dealing with the formalization of a bilateral truce, and the demobilization and disarmament of the FARC.
Colombia’s FARC rebels said Monday peace talks with the government are have “slowed” somewhat amid discussions over this bilateral and definitive ceasefire
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