Andean Group - June 2012 (ISSN 1741-4466)

“Peace is victory”, President Juan Manuel Santos told a group of soldiers at a recent event. Santos promises peace and asked congress for a legal framework that would enable him to broker peace with the country’s illegal left-wing armed groups, the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) and the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ENL). Since 14 June the president has that tool at his disposal, but the Colombian reality keeps pushing him back towards war. The guerrillas don’t appear any more inclined towards peace than they were almost two years ago, when Santos first took office.

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