CARTAGENA, Colombia—Using a pen fashioned from a bullet, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and the leader of the country’s largest rebel group signed a peace accord in this colonial city Monday to end a half-century conflict that killed more than 220,000 people. In an outdoor ceremony beneath white flags and swaying palms, Mr. Santos and guerrilla leader Rodrigo Londoño signed a 297-page peace document that both serves as a blueprint for a new Colombia and phases out a once-fearsome rebel force. More than 2,000...

Source: Wall Street Journal September 26, 2016 23:03 UTC