LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 13 April 2017

Colombia will have a new party competing in general elections in 2018: Patria Nueva, formed, among others, by Retired General Luis Mendieta, a former hostage of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc). Mendieta said that one of the motivating factors behind the creation of Patria Nueva was discontent with the transitional justice system in the peace accord with the Farc. The party is composed of retired members of the armed forces and police.

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