Despite Nobel, Colombia peace process in danger: expertsColombian President Juan Manuel Santos’s Nobel Peace Prize gives the country’s troubled peace process a major boost, but saving a deal voters recently rejected still won’t be easy, analysts say. It won’t be easy.”Risky gameThe Colombian conflict has killed more than 260,000 people and left 45,000 missing, drawing in several leftist rebel groups, right-wing paramilitaries and drug gangs. It was to relaunch as a political party under the peace deal. Santos has warned the country is in a “very dangerous limbo” as it scrambles to salvage the peace process. Now that the peace deal that established the ceasefire has failed, “it means the conflict starts again,” he said.

Source: Manila Bulletin October 07, 2016 18:33 UTC