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Politics this week

Negotiators for Colombia and the FARC, a left-wing guerrilla group, announced that they had reached a final agreement to end their 52-year-long war. Some 220,000 people died and 7m were displaced in Latin America’s longest-running military conflict. Combatants who committed crimes are to face a special tribunal. Those who confess will have their movement restricted and perform community service but will not go to jail. Colombians are to vote on the agreement on October 2nd. See here and here.

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