BOGOTA – The top leader of Colombia’s FARC on Tuesday described the meeting the day before in Havana between the rebel group’s peace negotiators and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry as historic, “unprecedented and unthinkable.”
“(It was) a historic meeting with the U.S. secretary of state, something unprecedented and unthinkable. We received support from him in person for the peace process in Colombia, which fills us with optimism and makes us more certain that we’re moving toward peace,” Rodrigo Londoño, alias “Timochenko,” said in a video released Tuesday by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.
Kerry, who accompanied U.S. President Barack Obama on his historic three-day visit to Cuba, held separate meetings Monday with Colombian government and FARC negotiators, who have been engaged in a peace process in Havana since November 2012.
Latin American Herald
