Uribe admits to offering FARC demilitarized zone
Uribe admits to offering FARC demilitarized zone
Oct 6, 2014 posted by Joel Gillin
Following years of criticizing Colombia’s ongoing peace talks with rebel group FARC, former President Alvaro Uribe on Monday admitted that his government also attempted to initiate peace talks with the FARC and even offered a demilitarized zone.
Uribe was embarrassed on Sunday after Semana columnist Daniel Coronell published evidence of the Uribe administration’s attempts to negotiate peace with the FARC, offering the rebels a demilitarized zone.
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In a series of tweets with the hashtag meaning “Non-negotiable conditions of Uribe,” the hard-line Democratic Center senator said that one of the demands to initiate peace talks was that “the terrorist group FARC verifiably implement a cease of all criminal activity. They didn’t want to.”
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