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- Neither at War Nor at Peace, Colombia’s FARC Rebels Watch and Wait by John Otis and Yari Savannah
- TIME magazine article consisting of ethnography
- Visit remote FARC camp in Colombia, it is disarmed and demobilized
- FARC is confident and hopeful
- Frederico Narnino: “This is how we will triumph”
- Now, the entire peace process—with its timetables for Colombia’s Congress to pass an amnesty law for rank-and-file rebels, for the FARC to demobilize and for the government to launch reconstruction projects in former conflict zones—is frozen.
- Milena Reyes, “I had a lump in my throat because I could feel all my dreams just falling apart.”
- President Santos is meeting with opposition politicians who want tougher sanctions on the FARC
- I respect Santos for how difficult it must be to find a “happy medium”, but I agree more with his adversaries
- Objective, but the fact that they described Santos as “chastened” shows the extreme divide that this deal has caused