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Colombia struggles to heal the wounds of 50 years of civil war with the Farc

2022-01-16T18:54:06.522Z


STORY - A peace agreement was signed in 2016 with the guerrillas, but its application raises many questions.


The peace agreement between Farc and the Colombian state was signed just over five years ago.

President Juan Manuel Santos was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for successfully silencing the guns of Latin America's main guerrillas.

Opponents of the text, with Alvaro Uribe at their head, promised the advent of a "Chavo-Castro" Colombia, believing that the agreement was too favorable to the Farc and gave them almost the keys to the state.

The facts have contradicted this, but the application of the agreements remains problematic.

The Farc guerrilla was born in the 1960s. It was created to denounce the social inequalities in the country and to demand a better distribution of land, the big landowners monopolizing a large part of the cultivable land and letting the small peasants live in more than precarious conditions.

His stated ambition has always been to overthrow the government to establish a more egalitarian society.

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Source: lefigaro

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