Dec 01 Colombia’s Congress ratifies retooled peace deal By News Desk The Colombian Congress ratified a revised peace agreement between the government and FARC rebels Wednesday night. Continue reading
Nov 29 Watch 5:44 News Wrap: Plane carrying a top Brazilian soccer team crashes, killing 71 By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Tuesday, a chartered plane carrying a top Brazilian soccer team crashed in Colombia overnight, killing 71 people on board. The plane went down in the mountains near Medellin as athletes and a group of journalists covering… Continue watching
Nov 24 Watch 3:32 Amidst violence, Colombia signs new peace deal with FARC rebels By PBS News Hour Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos signed a new peace deal with FARC rebels on Thursday, weeks after voters rejected an earlier agreement in a referendum. John Yang talks with special correspondent Nadja Drost about the changes in this latest deal,… Continue watching
Nov 14 Colombia tries for peace a second time By Kassia Halcli Negotiators from Colombia’s government and main rebel group published the full text of their revised peace accord on Monday, after voters rejected the terms of an earlier deal. Continue reading
Nov 13 Colombia and FARC sign amended peace deal By Michael D. Regan Voters narrowly rebuffed an initial accord last month that would have ended the 52-year conflict that killed more than 200,000 people. Continue reading
Oct 31 Watch 9:39 Can Colombia rework its FARC deal without jeopardizing peace? By PBS News Hour Colombia was on the verge of ending one of the most violent civil wars in Latin America just slightly more than a month ago, when the deal was narrowly rejected by a voter referendum. President Juan Manuel Santos now faces… Continue watching
Oct 31 Colombia’s president: I’m ‘trying to unite the country’ after rejected peace vote By News Desk Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos tells the PBS NewsHour, "I went out and recognized the result" after voters rejected a peace deal with FARC rebels, "which is what any president and any citizen should do." Watch more on tonight's PBS… Continue reading
Oct 07 Watch 4:30 Rejected FARC deal earns Colombian president the Nobel Peace Prize By PBS News Hour On Friday, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to negotiate a treaty with the guerrilla group FARC and put an end to the longest-running war in the Western Hemisphere. The honor was… Continue watching
Oct 07 Colombian president gets this year’s Nobel Peace Prize By Larisa Epatko Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Friday won the Nobel Peace Prize for efforts to forge an agreement with FARC rebels to end the country’s 52-year civil war. Just last Sunday, Colombians rejected that landmark deal, sending it back to… Continue reading
Oct 03 Watch 8:14 Why did Colombian voters reject the FARC peace deal? By PBS News Hour In a surprise vote, the Colombian people narrowly rejected the peace deal with guerilla group FARC that would have ended Latin America’s longest running conflict. After the vote, Colombia’s president and the top FARC commander both appealed for calm and… Continue watching