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Colombia’s President Risks Blowing Up a Fragile Peace
Reopening a historic deal with rebels could reignite instability.
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It took Colombia nearly five years to negotiate an end to Latin America’s oldest guerrilla insurgency. That deal earned its last president the Nobel Peace Prize and put the hemisphere’s most conflicted nation on the brink of democratic normalcy. So it’s fair to ask, why is the agreement under assault?
If President Ivan Duque gets his way, the pact could unravel, and, with it, Colombia-watchers fear, the country’s best chance to put to rest a half-century of mayhem and infamy.