Colombia, FARC Rebel Group Announce New Peace Accord
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos’s government announced a new peace pact with the Marxist FARC rebel group on Saturday, capping six feverish weeks of negotiations after Colombian voters narrowly rejected an earlier deal.The new accord with the FARC, or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, would include much of what had been agreed upon in the earlier pact, which was to be a pillar of Mr. Santos’s administration. The government and rebel commanders did make changes to several points in the original agreement, from requiring the rebels to surrender money and holdings from their criminal activities to providing safeguards for private owners as part of a modernization of the countryside.
