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Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace holds presser after ordering "immediate release" of FARC leader Jesus Santrich, indicted for drug trafficking by a US court. IMAGES
Former leader of the FARC rebels Jesus Santrich leaves La Picota prison momentarily before police take him back to prison. IMAGES
The Colombian government and dissidents of the FARC guerrilla group that signed a 2016 peace pact, start talks with a view to demobilizing some 3,500 fighters and putting an end, once and for all, to their armed insurgency. The parties have also agreed to observe a bilateral ceasefire until January 15, according to the defense ministry. Negotiations between the government of President Gustavo Petro and leaders of the so-called Central General Staff (EMC) kick off in Tibu in the country's northeast, an area surrounded by drug crops and hard-hit by the ongoing violence. IMAGES
"For us, it's clear that Maduro's dictatorship, this regime, is supporting these groups" says Colombia's High Commissioner for Peace, Miguel Ceballos, after ex-FARC leader, Ivan Marquez, announced that he is taking up arms again. IMAGES
Former FARC guerrilla leader Jesus Santrich greets his supporters from the balcony at the Party headquarters, after been released on orders of the Colombian Supreme Court, drawing an expression of regret from the United States, which wanted him for alleged drug trafficking. IMAGES
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