FARC´s weapons apprehended by the Colombian authorities. Flickr. Some rights reserved.
This year ends with vitally important progress in the negotiation process between the Colombian government and the FARC. On the one hand, the official announcement of an agreement on the victims is now a fact. On the other, Sergio Ibáñez, a member of the FARC negotiating team in Havana, said recently that "as we are closing the point on the victims, we have built the platform for analyzing the question of the end of the conflict".
These are not minor developments, for in addition to the partial agreements on comprehensive agricultural development policy, political participation, and the solving of the drug problem, we are adding now what has been so far the hardest negotiating point - the point on the victims, which includes the transitional justice framework - and we are giving a definite push to that of the end of the conflict.
