Colombia's Drug-Funded Rebels Are Back in Action Big-Time

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3. This was unfortunately very predictable. Santos (Alvaro Uribe's Minister of Defense)

decided to flip in his beliefs and tried instead for a Nobel Peace Prize by awarding unheard of concessions to the armed insurgent movements who were intimately tied to the narcos. Some took advantage of it (underline "advantage&quot while others merely pretended to be interested in disarming. Now that they have had several years under the 'Peace Plan' they have been able to regroup and rearm and are now beginning the same campaign of violence and murder their predecessors mastered in years past. Colombia seems to be heading right back to the bad old days of insecurity and violence that had the entire country hostage untl Alvaro Uribe became president. Now all the gains he made seem to be in jeopardy. Totally unnecessary.