Timochenko and Santos signed the peace deal yesterday afternoon.
Colombia, Rebels Sign Deal to End Half-Century Conflict. Peace accord will phase out FARC, whose battle with the government left more than 220,000 dead; president, insurgent leader use pen fashioned from bullet. The world’s largest narco-terrorist group now becomes a political organization:
Under the agreement, the group will be assured of 10 seats in congress in 2018.
The document I read last month (which is titled “final agreement”) did not show President Santos or Rodrigo Londoño/Timoleón Jiménez a.k.a. Timochenko (who will remain as FARC leader) as signatories, but they actually signed. If I find an official copy of the signed document I’ll add it to this post later today.
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Secretary of State John Kerry, and dictators Raúl Castro and Nicolás Maduro attended the event.
EU suspends FARC from terror list, while US prefers more cautious approach
God help the people of Colombia.
Colombians still have to approve the pact in a plebiscite next Sunday.
