Latin America's unwitting peacemaker

Could the antics of a former president bring peace to Colombia?

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Colombia, Washington's closest ally in South America, is on the brink of peace. Again. Or still, it's hard to keep track. Marathon peace talks in Havana have been taking place for well over a year between the hemisphere's most resilient Marxist guerrillas — las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, or FARC — and the government of President Juan Manuel Santos. Providing added drama to the deliberations is the fact that the nation's previous president, Álvaro Uribe, the mentor and former boss of President Santos, is doing his level best to undermine the negotiations, which he considers dangerous and useless.

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