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Weekly Report - 13 September 2018 (WR-18-36)
COLOMBIA: Stepping up the war on drugs
“This country is swimming in coca.” These words were uttered by Colombia’s defence minister Guillermo Botero last week. It is this sort of straight-talking that spared Colombia a repeat of US President Donald Trump’s decertification threat this time last year. Trump confined himself this time around to expressing concern about Colombian drug production but he knows that the new government under President Iván Duque is committed to a hard-line anti-drug strategy. This, however, comes amid mounting pressure on the fragile peace in Colombia, with attacks on social leaders and forced displacements surging, top-level divisions within the Fuerza Alternativa Revolucionaria del Común (Farc), and the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) threatening to abandon peace talks with the Duque administration altogether.
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- NICARAGUA: UNSC holds meeting to address crisis
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