No peace
THERE was a shadow sitting at the negotiating table when Colombia's government and the National Liberation Army (ELN), its second-biggest guerrilla group, sat down together this week in Geneva: the shadow of Carlos Castaño, Colombia's feared right-wing paramilitary warlord. While the negotiators talked in a Swiss hotel, Mr Castaño's men were busy attacking the last rebel stronghold in the heart of once-ELN territory in Colombia's San Lucas mountains, spreading terror in the area that the rebels want made into a demilitarised zone.
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