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Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos and Marxist FARC leader Rodrigo Londono sign a historic peace accord in Cartagena. Gavino Garay reports.
A military helicopter carrying former paramilitary leader Salvatore Mancuso, who spent 16 years in a US jail, arrives in Colombia's capital. Regarded as one of the most powerful warlords of the 1990s and early 21st century, Mancuso has pledged to tell the truth about his links to politicians and businesspeople in the South American country. 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
The government of Colombia and armed dissidents who broke off from what was once the nation's largest insurgency agree to renew a ceasefire and join peace talks. A joint statement did not specify how soon the ceasefire would take effect but said peace talks would subsequently begin between the government and the dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), an insurgency that laid down arms in 2016. IMAGES
Colombia's President Gustavo Petro holds an event in the capital Bogota with guerillas from the National Liberation Army (ELN) and civil organizations as a bilateral ceasefire comes into effect. IMAGES
Colombian president Gustavo Petro attends the third round of peace talks in Havana to announce a six-month ceasefire pact with the ELN guerrilla in pursuit of ending decades of conflict in the South American country. IMAGES
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