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Weekly Report - 28 August 2014 (WR-14-34)
COLOMBIA: Military deployed to Cuba
The peace talks between the government and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) have broken new ground with active military officers, including top brass, heading to Cuba to sit on a sub-commission to discuss the logistics of guerrilla disarmament and an eventual ceasefire. President Juan Manuel Santos came under fire from the Right for violating the constitution but he insisted that the armed forces not only needed to be present for practical purposes to advise the government negotiating team but were also “ennobled and dignified” through their participation.
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