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Colombia: An Opposition Party Gives Peace a Chance

Mar 26, 2019 | 19:51 GMT

(Stratfor)

The terms of a peace deal to end Colombia's decades-old civil war might have a future after all, government opposition notwithstanding. On March 26, the Colombian Liberal Party began posting billboards across the country in defense of the previous administration's peace agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The text on the billboards said the Liberal Party backed the peace agreement and considered "a return to war to be a crass error." Because he needs extra votes to modify key parts of the peace agreement, President Ivan Duque has been courting members of the Liberal Party and Radical Change in the Senate and lower house, but the former's coordinated public opinion campaign suggests it will not provide him with unconditional support -- meaning there is a reason for members of FARC to avoid returning to violence....

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