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Colombia hopes for 'humanitarian' ceasefire during coronavirus as violence resurges

  • Written by Shauna N Gillooly, PhD Candidate, Political Science, University of California, Irvine
Colombian soldiers patrol the streets of Bogota on March 30, 2020, during a mandatory national quarantine. GUILLERMO MUNOZ/AFP via Getty Images

Colombia’s 2016 peace accord was meant to end a half century of conflict with the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.

Yet some areas previously dominated by the FARC guerrillas...

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