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Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts)
Tue Aug 20, 2013, 10:55 PM Aug 2013

Uruguay President Jose Mujica takes active role in Colombia’s peace talks

Uruguay President Jose Mujica takes active role in Colombia’s peace talks
posted by Oliver Griffin
Aug 20, 2013

Uruguay President Jose Mujica has moved from words to deeds in his involvement with the Colombian peace talks and is reportedly interested in hosting peace talks with rebel group ELN.

Colombian newspaper El Espectador reported on Monday that Mujica, who has previously met with the FARC peace delegation in Cuba, has offered Uruguay as a potential location for peace talks with leftist-guerrilla group ELN.

The potential for peace talks with the ELN comes after the guerrillas released Canadian hostage Jernoc Wobert. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has always insisted that peace talks could not take place if the ELN continued to hold hostages and kidnap people.

http://colombiareports.com/uruguayan-president-jose-mujica-takes-active-role-in-colombia-peace-talks/

(Short article, no more at link.)


So what right-wing troll will step forward to bitch and whine about Mujica's participation in this round of Colombia peace negotiations, as we saw during Chavez' lifetime?

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