Colombia signs three-month cease-fire with FARC holdout group

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Colombia signs three-month cease-fire with FARC holdout group
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Colombia’s government and the rebel group know as FARC-EMC have signed a three-month cease-fire and formally began peace talks, as President Gustavo Petro tries to pacify rural areas of the country, ahead of elections that will take place at the end...

Colombia’s government and the rebel group know as

are currently Colombia’s third largest armed group, with around 3,500 members. The group is led by left-wing guerrilla fighters who refused to join a 2016 peace deal between Colombia’s government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia in which more than 12,000 rebels laid down their guns. The talks with the

said in September that they will not interfere in municipal and provincial elections that will be held on October 29. Their leaders argued that they wanted to give the government a gesture of good will, as both sides tried to broker a cease-fire. Last year, on December 31, President Petro ordered his troops to stop attacks on the

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