Colombia government, rebels to announce peace talks progress


  • World
  • Wednesday, 06 Nov 2013

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's government and Marxist FARC rebels will announce on Wednesday a partial agreement on the guerrillas' future in politics, one of the thorniest issues in peace talks in Cuba, an official source said.

The FARC, or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, has been fighting the government in a jungle and urban conflict that has killed more than 200,000 people since it began almost five decades ago as a peasant movement seeking land reform.

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