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    After Voters Reject Peace Deal With FARC, What's Next For Colombia?

    http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-w...t-for-colombia

    President Juan Manuel Santos says he intends to maintain a bilateral cease-fire that's been in effect for several months. And, Otis says, the overall intensity of the war has been lower for the past several years.

    The challenge now will be whether Santos and the FARC can revive the peace agreement after it's been rejected by the people.

    Santos has said there was "no plan B" for what to do if the deal wasn't approved by the public. Both sides have now indicated they want to find a way to save it.
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    Renegotiate the deal.
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    FARC rebels to get amnesty...

    Bogota Congress approves amnesty for FARC rebels
    Fri, Dec 30, 2016 - The Colombian Congress on Wednesday approved an amnesty law to protect thousands of demobilizing Marxist guerrilla fighters from prosecution for minor crimes committed during the country’s 52-year war.
    The law, a key part of a peace deal signed last month between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels, will not include fighters who have committed war crimes or human rights violations.

    DEMOBILIZATION

    The amnesty also applies to members of the country’s military. It is the first in a series of laws tied to the deal that is to be sped through congress in hopes of reassuring rebels who are beginning to move to special demobilization zones. The bill passed in both the Senate and the lower house, despite vociferous opposition from the right-wing Democratic Center party, whose members abstained from voting. The coalition of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this month, has a majority in Congress. About 7,000 FARC fighters are expected to lay down their arms over the next six months.

    PUNISHMENT

    Rebels found guilty of serious crimes like massacres, sexual violence or kidnapping will not fall under the amnesty and will instead serve alternative sentences, such as land mine removal, to be determined by a special court. In a joint statement on Wednesday, the FARC and the government said they would establish how many rebels are not eligible for the amnesty by Jan. 30 at the latest. Other laws tied to the peace deal include rural reform, compensation to victims, removal of land mines and a UN-monitored ceasefire. The FARC will convert into a political party under the accord.

    http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/worl.../30/2003662206

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    The chaos in Columbia was created much the same way as in Libya, Yugoslavia, Syria, Iraq by the US/UK/Israeli/Saudi axis of hypocrisy.
    Kick the foreign instigators out of the country and they will come back in other equally or more vicious ways.

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    FARC rebel leader in intensive care after stroke...

    Top Colombian rebel leader in intensive care after stroke
    Monday 3rd July, 2017 -- The top commander of Colombia's largest rebel movement was hospitalized Sunday following a stroke and remains in intensive care, just days after his group handed over the last of its individual weapons as part of a historic peace deal.
    Rodrigo Londono, better known by his nom de guerre Timochenko, checked himself into a hospital emergency room in the city of Villavicencio shortly after 8 a.m. with slurred speech and numbness in his arm, doctors said in a news conference. They said he remains in intensive care as a precautionary measure but his speech and mobility have already recovered 90 percent from what they described as a temporary blockage of blood to his brain. Doctors said if there are no complications the leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia could be released in the next 24 to 48 hours. "Of course he's conscious and making jokes," another rebel leader known by his alias Pastor Alape said at the press conference.

    Londono, who is in his 50s, has suffered a number of health scares of late, the result partly of a lifetime in jungle trenches. Recently the FARC confirmed that in 2015 Londono suffered a heart attack during peace negotiations in Cuba, and earlier this year, after the deal was inked, had another unspecified medical setback for which he received treatment on the communist-run island. Alape said initially Londono brushed off the symptoms and had to be convinced by his comrades to undergo medical evaluation. "Thank you to everyone who is concerned about my health," Londono said on Twitter. "Everything is going well. I also thank the medical team for their care."

    Londono's hospitalization comes less than a week after Colombia reached a major milestone on its road to peace with the FARC rebels relinquishing some of their last weapons and declaring an end to their half-century insurgency. The historic step was taken by Londono along with President Juan Manuel Santos at a demobilization camp in Colombia's eastern jungles near Villavicencio.

    Though hundreds of FARC caches filled with larger weapons and explosives are still being cleared out, the United Nations has certified that all individual firearms and weapons, except for a small number needed to safeguard the soon-to-disband camps, have been collected. The step put Colombia closer to turning a page on Latin America's longest-running conflict, which caused at least 250,000 deaths, left 60,000 people missing and displaced more than 7 million.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/timochen...e-care-stroke/

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