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Politics over peace? Colombia’s coalition falls apart over 2018
elections

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Politics over peace? Colombia’s coalition falls apart over 2018
elections

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While in the middle of peace negotiations to end half a century of war, Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos’ coalition is falling apart as each party is starting to position itself for the 2018 elections.

On Tuesday, the Liberal party officially broke with Santos’ coalition. There were three broad reasons for this.
Firstly, they were left in the dark about the recent cabinet reshuffle, in which they lost one cabinet member overall.
Secondly, Santos left the liberals’ preferred candidate, Jorge Perdomo, off his shortlist for the new Prosecutor General.
And thirdly, resentment has been building about Vice President German Vargas, an experienced and shrewd dynasty politician likely to oppose the liberals come elections in 2018.

Vargas has dissociated himself from ongoing, but hardly popular peace talks with leftist rebel groups FARC and ELN while increasing his public profile, cutting ribbons at the inauguration of public works.

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PEACE PROCESS

Colombia
peace process could go

 ‘from limbo to hell’ if new deal not agreed
soon: FARC

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PEACE PROCESS

Colombia
peace process could go

 ‘from limbo to hell’ if new deal not agreed
soon: FARC

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Colombia’s largest rebel group, the FARC, warned Monday that a suspended peace process between the group and the government could result in reignited violence if a solution isn’t negotiated soon.

The FARC began its demobilization and disarmament process in late September after signing peace with the administration of President Juan Manuel Santos, but was stopped in its tracks by an October 2 referendum that rejected the deal with a razor-sharp margin.

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Learning about Colombia’s street food in
Medellin

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Learning about Colombia’s street food in
Medellin

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For those who want to know more about Colombia’s gastronomy, an American couple have started a food tour in Medellin, the country’s second largest city.

The tour, set up by Jeremy Hand and Nicole Furnace, provides a unique experience which aims to inform on the local cuisine through storytelling and insightful local expertise.

Colombian food is often dealt a bad rap by travelers, especially when compared to many South American counterparts, and this tour aims to revise this reputation by hand picking top local spots indistinguishable to the foreign eye.

The “La Mesa” walking tour comprises five stops; three on Envigado’s streets for some tasting of deep-friend snacks, one in the local fruit market and finally at a restaurant for the centerpiece of the Paisa cuisine, the “Bandeja Paisa.”

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Pope Francis to visit Colombia to support
ongoing peace negotiations

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Pope Francis to visit Colombia to support
ongoing peace negotiations

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Pope Francis will visit Colombia, the Vatican has announced, as the pontiff urged Colombians to work for peace as the country conducts talks with Marxist rebels to end 50 years of war.

The pope will add Colombia to an upcoming tour of Latin America, the Vatican said in a letter to the country’s Catholic leadership, without specifying a date.

“His Holiness invites you to be collaborators in the construction of peace,” the letter said, adding that the 78-year-old Argentine pope expressed solidarity with the victims of the war, which has killed 220,000 people.

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Pope Francis will visit Colombia, the Vatican has announced, as the pontiff urged Colombians to work for peace as the country conducts talks with Marxist rebels to end 50 years of war.

The pope will add Colombia to an upcoming tour of Latin America, the Vatican said in a letter to the country's Catholic leadership, without specifying a date.

"His Holiness invites you to be collaborators in the construction of peace," the letter said, adding that the 78-year-old Argentine pope expressed solidarity with the victims of the war, which has killed 220,000 people.

"We will receive (the Pope) with open arms and hearts as a messenger of peace and reconciliation," President Juan Manuel Santos said on Twitter.

The government is more than two years into peace negotiations with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or Farc, rebel group.

"We should not lose energy or hope in the face of this project's difficulties," the letter said of peace efforts.

Negotiators have so far reached partial accords on land reform, an end to the illegal drugs trade and political participation for ex-rebels. They are now debating the thorny issues of victim reparations and guerrilla demobilisation.

"We must continue the commitment to the displaced, to survivors of land mines, those who have endured the taking of their property, the kidnapped, with everyone who has suffered," the Vatican said.
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Pope Francis to visit Colombia to support ongoing peace negotiations

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Pope Francis will visit Colombia, the Vatican has announced, as the pontiff urged Colombians to work for peace as the country conducts talks with Marxist rebels to end 50 years of war. The pope will add Colombia to an upcoming tour of Latin America, the Vatican said in a letter to the country's Catholic leadership, without specifying a date.

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Medellin’s 5 most popular tourism sites
Over the past decade, tourism to Colombia’s second largest city, Medellin, has grown massively. Part of this growth is due to brand new attractions that are dominating the city’s most visited tourism sites.

Of the five most popular tourism destinations in the city, four did not become what they are now until former mayor Sergio Fajardo began major public works projects in 2004 as part of a globally praised urban development policy.

These projects have not just stimulated tourism, but have been drawing visitors to the farthest corners of the city, away from the tourist comfort zone in the south of the city.

The following were Medellin’s most visited tourist sites in 2014.

Ø  Botanical Garden

Ø  Arvi Park

Ø  Cerro Nutibara

Ø  Spain Library Park

Ø  Parque Explora