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Posted on 08/15/2017 2:16:11 PM PDT by ColdOne
Bogota (AFP) - Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos declared the country's 50-year conflict with FARC guerrillas "truly over" Tuesday, as the last truckloads of decommissioned weapons rolled away to be melted down.
Santos himself shut a padlock on the last lot of decommissioned rifles before it was taken out of a remote demobilization camp to formally seal the UN-supervised disarmament by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
"With the laying down of arms ... the conflict is truly over and a new phase begins in the life of our nation," Santos said at a ceremony in Pondores, a remote area in the northern Guajira department.
"This is truly a historic moment for the country," he said.
"We have been a republic for 198 years. Never had we had such a long conflict and today is indeed the last breath of that conflict."
The leftist rebel force has said it will officially transform into a political party on September 1, a major step in reintegrating into civilian life as part of a historic peace deal signed last year.
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Yeah, they’ll get some of our scumbag political operative lefties to go down there and help them.
For a price.
All hail President (for life) Santos!
Interesting that Columbia has not gone People’s Republic.
And they are fools if they turned in all their weapons.
Those weapons should have been rerouted to Venezuela. The only way the people of Venezuela will take their country back from Maduro is through violence.
“And they are fools if they turned in all their weapons.”
Not only did they not turn over all their weapons, they kept millions (some say hundreds of millions) of their narco-dollars.
It will be just a few years until this blows up again.
Vice President PenceVerified account @VP
The advance of freedom and democracy in Latin America benefits the cause of freedom everywhere.
The Vice President and his wife have been there for a week. Pics and more info here: #VPinSA
Let the re-education camps and re-writing of history begin.
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