Colombia president defends constitutionality of peace law

[JURIST] Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos [official website, in Spanish] on Thursday intervened [press release, in Spanish] in the public hearing of the Constitutional Court [official website, in Spanish] to defend the Framework for Peace [JURIST report], a proposed constitutional amendment that brought about peace talks with the FARC and ELN [BBC backgrounders], two rebel paramilitary groups. The country has been plagued by an internal war with these rebel groups for the past five decades, and the president defended the...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/07/colombia-president-defends-constitutionality-of-peace-law.php

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