The Colombian government and the FARC, the country’s largest guerrilla group, signed a peace agreement to end their 50-plus-year war last week. The deal settles the main issues over which the two parties had been killing themselves and some 180,000 civilians (link in Spanish) over the course of several decades: agrarian reform, political power, and drug trafficking. It’s a remarkable achievement considering the length and scale of the conflict. But the 300-page deal (Spanish) is…
Colombian women made sure gender equality was at the center of a groundbreaking peace deal with the FARC
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