No cease-fire, drugs nag at Colombia peace talks
Source: Associated Press
"Any responsible leader knows he can't let pass up a possibility like this to end the conflict," President Juan Manuel Santos told the nation Tuesday in announcing an accord with the peasant-based FARC to seek "a definitive peace."
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Potential spoilers to a peace deal abound, particularly to the agrarian reform and rural development that Santos, a social progressive, says he will seek.
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The White House issued a statement Tuesday praising the preliminary accord as a "milestone" and asking the FARC to "take this opportunity to end its decades of terrorism and narcotics trafficking."
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Santos stressed Tuesday that he will not cede an inch of territory: "Military operations will continue with the same or stepped-up intensity."
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