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Rodrigo Londono Echeverri, leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, has shown himself to be a shrewd political operator. (Associated Press/File)

Rodrigo Londono Echeverri, FARC leader, runs for Colombia president

By Frederic Puglie - Special to The Washington Times

Ivan Marquez, a former leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, announces that their one-time top commander, Rodrigo Londono, will run for president in next year's election during a press conference in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017. Marquez also announced the names of other nine former rebel leaders who, with him, will fill 10 seats in Congress guaranteed to the FARC political party on a temporary basis as part of last year's peace deal. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)

Ex-rebel commander Timochenko to run for Colombia presidency

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos locks the final container holding weapons once carried by guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, at a demobilization site in Fonseca, Colombia, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017. Former rebels finished turning over their individual weapons in late June. Since then, they have been locked up and guarded by U.N. observers. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

UN removes last container holding Colombia rebel weapons

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

FILE - In this June, 27, 2017 file photo, Rodrigo Londono, also known as Timoleon Jimenez or Timochenko, the top commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, gives his speech during an act to commemorate the completion of the disarmament process of FARC rebels, in Buenavista, Colombia. On Sunday, July 2, 2017, Timochenko was hospitalized with stroke, and remains in intensive care in Colombia. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Top Colombian rebel leader in intensive care after stroke

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In this Wednesday, May 10, 2017 photo, a family stands around the body of 6-year-old Victor Serrano Ruiz, who died in a fireworks explosion, inside their two-room cinderblock home in San Isidro, Mexico. An errant firecracker landed on a cache of fireworks and touched off a powerful explosion Tuesday, at a home in the Mexican state of Puebla, killing 11 children and three adults. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

UN: Reintegrating ex-fighters is first challenge in Colombia

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

A cowboy herds his cattle near Buenavista in the municipality of Mesetas, Colombia, Monday, June 26, 2017. On Tuesday, Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos and the FARC’s top commander Timochenko will meet in this area, at one of many rural camps where rebel fighters are making their transition to civilian life, to commemorate the completion of FARC disarmament process. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Colombia takes big step to peace as rebels lay down guns

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

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)

UN: Colombian rebels have handed over almost all weapons

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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)

FARC’s elusive finances undercut support for Colombia peace

By ALBA TOBELLA - Associated Press

Three months into the implementation of a peace accord with Bogata, rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have surrendered what critics say is a token number of weapons while the production of coca has skyrocketed. (Associated Press/File)

Colombia’s control of FARC peace deal has U.S. skeptics

By Martin Arostegui - Special to The Washington Times

Colombian Ambassador Juan Carlos Pinzon said coca growers have adjusted to the easing of harsh eradication efforts backed by successive U.S. governments, coating the coca leaves with jelly to frustrate aerial spraying and planting the coca amid legal crops or in national parkland. (Associated Press/File)

Juan Carlos Pinzon, Colombian ambassador, firm on peace with FARC, war on coca

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Illustration on the peace process in Colombia by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

The ignoble act of a Nobel Laureate

By Jared Genser

UN removes 4 envoys from Colombia for partying with rebels

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

President Juan Manuel Santos won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to halt the country's long civil war, but Colombians still distrust his peace treaty with the FARC rebels. (Associated Press)

FARC peace deal in jeopardy if U.S. lawmakers block funds committed by Obama

By Martin Arostegui — Special to The Washington Times

Humberto de La Calle, left, head of Colombia's government peace negotiation team, listens as Ivan Marquez, chief negotiator of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) reads a joint statement in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Oct. 28, 2016. The statement said many new proposals have been incorporated in the text of a new peace accord after voters narrowly defeated the deal on Oct. 2. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

‘Everything on the table’ in revived Colombia peace talks

By FRANK BAJAK - Associated Press

Kaci Kullmann Five, chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize award committee, announces the laureate of Nobel Peace Prize 2016, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, during a ceremony in Oslo, Norway, Friday Oct. 7, 2016. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end a civil war that killed more than 200,000 Colombians. (Heiko Junge NTB scanpix via AP)

The Latest: Obama personally congratulates Santos over Nobel

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Opponents to the peace deal signed between the Colombian government and rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, celebrate as they listen to the results of the referendum to decide whether or not to support a peace accord to in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. The peace deal was expected to end more than 5 decades of conflict between the FARC and the government. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Skepticism about FARC doomed Colombia peace deal referendum

By Ana Rosa Quintana

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)

After emerging from hideouts, Colombia’s rebels now in limbo

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and ANDREA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press