![]() If Brexit was momentous for Europe, then Sunday’s vote will be Latin America’s most important in decades. Then the last stage in this tortuous process comes on 2 October, when Colombia votes in a plebiscite on whether to accept or reject the deal. Tomorrow, 26 September, in the Caribbean city of Cartagena, before diplomats from around the world, Colombia’s president, Juan Manuel Santos, and the Farc’s supreme commander, Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri (known by his nom-de-guerre Timochenko), will add their signatures to the peace treaty negotiated over four years in Havana, Cuba. The future, they say, is to turn the Farc into a political, not military, force. In doing so, they will also vote for their own dissolution as an armed organisation. This week, guerrillas from all over the country converged on this remote encampment to attend Farc’s historic 10th congress and to ratify a peace agreement that ends the conflict. It is as unlike a guerrilla camp as is possible to imagine. ![]() Now, a historic peace deal is being forged with the Colombian government, ending the 52-year conflict between the Farc and the state the evening is relaxed and playful. ![]()
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