Colombia president starts new term, warns FARC to halt attacks

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Source: Reuters

Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos was sworn in to a second term on Thursday promising to bring peace and equality to the nation, but warned Marxist rebels that talks to end five decades of war could rupture if hostilities against civilians continue.

"Members of the FARC: you have been warned!" he said.

Santos bet his political legacy on ending a conflict with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) that has killed more than 200,000 people, displaced millions and left great swathes of rural terrain seeded with land mines.

But even though he was elected on a platform of peace and benefited from progress in talks, the FARC has angered Colombians in recent weeks with an increase in attacks that have left a heavy economic and social price tag.

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1. Santos is fast coming to the realization that, like

Andres Pastrana before him he has been taken for a ride by FARC. I fully expect him to begin offensive operations against FARC in the very near future.