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NFT: Colombia, Marxist rebels sign accord ending 52-year war

Ira : 9/28/2016 4:30 pm
In a time where we've lived through all kinds of craziness, a major war to the South has ended. 250,000 people have died over the last half century from this conflict.
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This is positive news...  
Dunedin81 : 9/28/2016 4:48 pm : link
hopefully the leadership has sufficient control over the rank and file to enforce this, but things had been trending in a mostly positive direction over the last couple decades.
They must have watched Narcos season 2!!!  
tbonfig : 9/28/2016 4:50 pm : link
kidding of course. Glad to see this finally coming to an end.
Amazing news, I am a Colombian-American  
Ceez2.0 : 9/28/2016 4:52 pm : link
and this (peace) is something I used to hear my family discuss and hope for when I was a kid. My mother moved back down there after spending 30 plus years in the states and she tells me it just has a different feel to it, people feel safe.
RE: Amazing news, I am a Colombian-American  
Ira : 9/28/2016 5:04 pm : link
In comment 13147200 Ceez2.0 said:
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and this (peace) is something I used to hear my family discuss and hope for when I was a kid. My mother moved back down there after spending 30 plus years in the states and she tells me it just has a different feel to it, people feel safe.


That's very nice to hear.
Am I correct that this means there is peace in the  
Deej : 9/28/2016 5:07 pm : link
Western Hemisphere? I think I saw that a few weeks ago.

Just a reminder that, notwithstanding people's inclination to believe that current problems are always the worst, the world is in fact less dangerous than it has even been (nuke threat aside).
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