Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos speaks after delivering to Congress the peace deal with rebels of FARC, in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016. AP Photo/Felipe Caicedo. All rights reserved.
A peace agreement between Colombia's government and the country’s largest rebel army has been reached, and while the end of the five-decade old civil war has immense political and social implications, it's not clear what is going to happen to the criminal economies that have sustained thousands of rebels.
The agreement between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia - FARC) and the government came after almost four years of negotiations. And although the formal agreement will not be signed until next month, there are already questions about what happens to an immense criminal economies present where the FARC operates.
