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Colombian peace process
Negotiations between the Colombian government and FARC (2012–2016)
Colombian peace process
The Colombian peace process is the negotiations between the Government of Colombia under President Juan Manuel Santos and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC–EP) aimed at ending the decades-long Colombian conflict. Formal negotiations began in September 2012 and were primarily held in Havana, Cuba. These talks culminated in the Final Peace Agreement between the Government of Colombia and the FARC-EP. In 2016, negotiators announced the final agreement. President Santos and FARC commander-in-chief Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri, better known as Timoleón Jiménez (nickname "Timochenko"), publicly signed the first peace accord. Londoño had assumed leadership of the FARC in 2011 following the death of Guillermo León Sáenz (better known as Alfonso Cano). At the event, Londoño issued a public apology, stating: “We are being reborn to launch a new era of reconciliation and of building peace.” However, the agreement was narrowly rejected in a national referendum held on October 2, 2016, with...
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