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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 president dismissed concerns on Wednesday that peace talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) will miss their deadline later this month.
“I’m not going to sign a bad agreement to meet a date,” President Juan Manuel Santos said at a public event. It was his first public recognition that the two sides may miss the March 23 deadline.
Mr Santos insisted that if the two sides have not reached an acceptable agreement by then, they will simply set a new deadline.
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