Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is scrambling to salvage the nation’s peace process, sending his negotiating team back to Cuba and calling for meetings with political opponents, after voters rejected his government’s deal with Marxist rebels by a wafer-thin margin.
On Oct. 2, Colombians rejected the agreement by a 50.2 percent to 49.8 percent margin, just six days after Santos signed the accord to end the conflict in front of regional heads of state. Turnout was 37 percent and only 54,000 votes separated the two sides.
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