Colombia
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This is a weekly roundup of events from 16 March to 22 March 2014. The 22nd round of peace talks between the FARC and the government kicked off in Havana this week. The negotiations are proceeding in an atmosphere made tense by the revelation of the military’s spying on the talks, President Santos’s controversial ousting of Bogota’s leftist mayor
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Cross-posted with Conflict Journal. This is a weekly roundup of events from 9 March to 15 March 2014. Former president Alvaro Uribe won a seat in the Senate in elections held this weekend. His newly formed party, the conservative Centro Democratico (Democratic Center), won 19 seats to become the second most powerful force in the senate behind
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The US has been scaling back involvement in its “backyard,” Latin America, for quite some time. After focusing heavily on the Middle East in the early 2000s, Asia and Africa appear to be the regions America’s foreign policy establishment wants to prioritize next. Further evidence of this trend came yesterday, when it was reported that US Secretary of State
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Colombia has experienced one of the longest periods of political conflict of any country in the modern era. The main source of tension has been the decades-long struggle of the Marxist paramilitary group calling themselves the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) against the Colombian government. The rebel group’s demands have largely centered around agrarian
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Today marks the one-year anniversary of the inception of peace talks with the FARC. Last week, the Colombian government and the FARC signed a deal to allow for the FARC’s participation in the country’s political system should a final agreement be reached in the peace negotiations. As President Santos put it, “Never before have we
Mike LaSusa 