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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 30 June 2017
COLOMBIA: Farc bids farewell to arms
President Juan Manuel Santos handed the maximum leader of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc), ‘Timochenko’ (Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri), an AK-47 converted into a spade on 27 June. Santos presented this symbol of the end of the hemisphere’s longest armed conflict, which dates back to 27 May 1964, and the new life awaiting demobilised guerrillas, to Timochenko in a ceremony held in the municipality of Mesetas in the south-eastern department of Meta to mark the completion of the disarmament process. The Farc will now begin its transformation into a political force and guerrillas their reinsertion into society, but significant challenges lie ahead, not least the transitional justice process.
