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The Colombian government and Farc rebels are set to sign a peace deal, although the terms of the deal are subject to a referendum:
The Colombian government and left-wing Farc rebels are set to sign a historic agreement deal that formally brings an end to 52 years of civil war. The last of the major Cold War conflicts killed 260,000 people and left six million internally displaced. President Juan Manuel Santos and rebel leader Timoleon Jimenez, known as Timochenko, will use a pen made from a bullet to sign the deal on Monday.
[...] Under the deal, the Farc will be relaunched as a political party. The agreement will be put to Colombian voters in a popular vote on 2 October. It comes after four years of talks in Havana, Cuba, between President Santos and Timochenko, The pair will shake hands on Colombian soil for the first time.
Controversially, it will allow rebels to avoid prosecution for various war crimes so long as they admit to committing offenses.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday September 27 2016, @01:26AM
FARC certainly did some terrible things, just like all the other sides in this civil war.
When the Soviet Union fell over and stopped supporting the left-wing rebels, the CIA could have ended the whole thing at a stroke, but they knew that if the US walked away from Columbia the Conservatives they had kept in power for half a century would lose any free and fair elections, so they kept the civil war going.
I know that's very simplistic, but like almost every Latin American people's struggle, the US has taken the side of the conservative land-owners, in an attempt to defeat Communism.