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Rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, build a stage for the next day's ceremony that will commemorate the completion of the rebels' disarmament process, at the Mariana Paez demobilization zone, one of many rural camps where rebel fighters are making their transition to civilian life, in Buenavista, Colombia, Monday, June 26, 2017. The United Nations say that leftist rebels in Colombia have turned over almost all of their fighters’ individual weapons as part of a historic peace deal reached with the government last year. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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Firefighters stand outside the Centro Andino shopping center in Bogota, Colombia, Saturday, June 17, 2017. A explosion rocked the mall, one of the busiest in Colombia's capital, killing at least one woman and injuring 11 others according to authorities. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)
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FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2016 file photo, rebel leaders Rodrigo Londono, center, Ivan Marquez, right, and Pastor Alape, left, attend the closing event of the 10th conference of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, in Yari Plains, Colombia. As Colombia’s leftist rebel movement begins making its transition to a political party, chief prosecutor Nestor Martinez rocked the nation on June 2017, by saying he has compiled evidence that the FARC is sitting on an illegal fortune worth hundreds of millions of dollars, a political war chest that outstrips the coffers of traditional parties. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan, File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 29, 2016 file photo, rescue workers recover a body from the wreckage site of LaMia airplane crash carrying 77 people that slammed into the Colombian mountainside, in La Union, a mountainous area near Medellin, Colombia. Chapecoense, the Brazilian soccer club that was devastated by the air tragedy in Colombia last year, made an emotional return to the scene of the crash on Tuesday, May 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)
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In this March, 21, 2017 photo, Mexican actor Marco de la O, back left, plays drug lord Joaquin Guzman during the filming of "El Chapo" in Tabio, Colombia. At the time filming started, Guzman was still in Mexico and the series' location was shifted for security reasons, said producer Daniel Posada. "Colombia was a good option, because we have well-trained crews and it is very similar in appearance to Mexico." (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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Illustration on the peace process in Colombia by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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Police repel animal defense activists with tear gas before the start of a bullfight, the first such events in four years, outside the Santamaria bullring in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. Bogota's previous mayor banned bullfighting in 2012. But Colombia's constitutional court later overturned the ban, ruling that it was part of Colombia's cultural heritage and couldn't be blocked. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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Police officers scuffle with animal defense activists before a bullfight, the first of such events in four years, outside the Santamaria bullring in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. Bogota's previous mayor banned bullfighting in 2012. But Colombia's constitutional court later overturned the ban, ruling that it was part of Colombia's cultural heritage and couldn't be blocked. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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FILE - In this Nov. 29, 2016, file photo, rescue workers search at the wreckage site of a chartered airplane that crashed outside Medellin, Colombia. Three players survived and 19 players perished in the air crash almost two months ago in Colombia. (AP Photo/Luis Benavides, File)
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Illustration on the obstacles to peace in Colombia by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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A cyclist raises his arm next to students camping to ask for peace at the main square in Bogota, Colombia, early Friday, Oct. 7, 2016. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday, just days after Colombian voters narrowly rejected a peace deal he signed with rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)
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FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2016 file photo Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos delivers a statement to the press after meeting with former President Alvaro Uribe and other opposition leaders at the presidential palace in Bogota, Colombia. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has won Nobel Peace Prize it was announced on Friday Oct. 7, 2016. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)
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A supporter of the peace deal signed between the Colombian government and rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, wave a flag during a rally in front of Congress, in Bogota, Colombia, Monday, Oct. 3, 2016. Colombians rejected a peace deal with leftist rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, by a razor-thin margin in a national referendum Sunday, dismissing years of negotiations and delivering a setback to President Juan Manuel Santos. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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Supporters of the peace accord signed between the Colombian government and rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, follow on a giant screen the results of a referendum to decide whether or not to support the deal in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. Colombia's peace deal with leftist rebels was on the verge of collapsing in a national referendum Sunday, with those opposing the deal leading by a razor-thin margin with almost all votes counted.(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
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Illustration on the Colombia peace accord and cocaine exportation by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Rodrigo Londono, also known as Timochenko, the top leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, raises his fist as he boards a helicopter in Yari Plains, southern Colombia, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016. Londono and Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos are expected to sign a peace accord to end a more than five decades civil conflict in the Caribbean city of Cartagena on Sept. 26. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)
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FILE - In this Jan. 4, 2016, file photo, Juliana, 20, left, and Mariana, 24, rebel soldiers for the 36th Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, listen to a commander speak on the peace negotiations between the rebels and the Colombian government, in a hidden camp in Antioquia state, in the northwest Andes of Colombia. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said Tuesday, June 21, that his government may reach an agreement on a bilateral ceasefire with leftist rebels as early as this week. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd,File)
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FILE - In this March 7, 2008 file photo, smugglers cross the Tachira River carrying Venezuela gasoline into Colombia, in Cucuta, at the Colombian border with Venezuela. President Nicolas Maduro has ordered the closure of a major border crossing with Colombia after three soldiers were attacked while looking for smugglers. Maduro late Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015, said the normally busy border in western Tachira state would remain closed for 72 hours. (AP Photo/William Fernando Martinez, File)
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Colombia's Angela Clavijo (13) stretches for the ball in front of United States' Lauren Holiday during first half FIFA Women's World Cup round of 16 soccer action in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Monday, June 22, 2015. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT
