FARC insurgents, flying a white flag of truce, head toward the Pacific coast city of Buenaventura, Colombia, to surrender their weapons to U.N. monitors. In agreeing to lay down its arms, the rebel group lost the power it once had to threaten the government. Some FARC factions have continued to pursue criminal activities.
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Congress has yet to pass the laws needed to fully implement the insurgency's demobilization, but the group's power to threaten the state has diminished....
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