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Disaster prompts president to lift moratorium on death penalty, a move human rights groups say is ‘a retreat into barbarism’
COLOMBIA’S Farc guerillas must be removed from lists of terrorist organisations to pave the way for peace, US and EU leaders were told on Thursday.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) urged the European Union to remove it from its designated terrorist list as Cuban-mediated peace talks in Havana reached an advanced stage.
The rebels, who have fought a 50-year war against the army and paramilitary death squads, are ready to lay down their arms and participate in elections as they did in 1984.
The disputed election of a far-right president, who is also a US citizen, signals further consolidation of Washington’s regional power and represents a threat to the country’s democracy and sovereignty, writes WT WHITNEY JNR
With Petro, Colombia has been making huge strides towards peace — but is all that at risk with the elections next year? MARK ROWE reports back after joining a delegation to the Latin American country
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA