Colombia Halts Air Raids On FARC Rebels For One Month

Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos. (Photo: President's Office)

The Guardian: Colombia suspends air raids on the Farc

President Juan Manuel Santos cites progress in peace negotiations and success of ceasefire for his decision to halt attacks on rebel camps

Colombia’s government took its biggest step yet toward an eventual end to hostilities in a half-century conflict by ordering an immediate halt to aerial bombings of guerrilla camps belonging to the nation’s largest rebel group.

President Juan Manuel Santos, in a nationally televised address on Tuesday night, said he made the decision in virtue of the progress in negotiations started in 2012 with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) and the rebels’ adherence to a unilateral ceasefire they declared in December.

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