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News:

Conservative Ivan Duque has won Colombia’s presidential election, putting the landmark 2016 peace deal with the FARC at risk.

FARC:

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia –People’s Army was a guerrilla movement.
It involved in the continuing Colombian armed conflict from 1964 to 2017.
It was known to employ a variety of military tactics.
The operations of the FARC-EP were funded by kidnap and ransom; illegal mining, extortion or taxation of various forms of economic activity, production and distribution of illegal drugs
The United Nations has estimated that 12% of all killings of civilians in Colombian conflict were committed by FARC and National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas.
In 2016 a peace deal was signed with FARC.

Important facts:

Right-wing candidate has pledged to roll back parts of the landmark 2016 peace accord with the FARC group.
The outgoing President Juan Manuel Santos signed the peace accord with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), formally ending more than 50 years of conflict that left at least 220,000 people dead and more than seven million displaced.
Duque is supported by former-president, Alvaro Uribe, one of the peace accord’s fiercest critics for its perceived soft judicial treatment of “FARC terrorists”.
The FARC’s withdrawal from the contest worked a setback for the central plank of the peace process.

Peace agreement:

The Columbian Peace Agreement on the termination of the Columbian conflict between the Colombian government and FARC guerillas was held on Oct 2, 2016.
The peace agreement negotiations began on Aug, 2021 in Havana.
The final agreement included topics of rural reform, political participation, the end of hostilities, solutions to the production of illicit drugs, the rights of victims, and the mechanisms of implementation and verification

In the shadow of FARC