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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGuess What? As Of Today, The Western Hemisphere Has No Wars
Colombians in the capital, Bogota, hold up the letters for "peace" in Spanish on Monday. The Colombian government and FARC rebels signed a peace agreement, marking an end to the last war in the Western Hemisphere. Colombia's civil war lasted more than 50 years and Latin America has had civil wars for the past six decades. Jennifer Alarcon/AP
September 27, 2016
10:34 AM ET
GREG MYRE
Fidel Castro and his rag-tag band of fighters assembled on the shores of Mexico, stealthily navigated their overcrowded boat to southeastern Cuba, and unleashed a 1956 insurgency that rocked all of Latin America. That temblor lasted 60 years and ended, more or less, on Monday.
Castro seized power in 1959, and his brother Raul still rules Cuba today. The revolution washed over the entire region, inspiring leftist insurgencies throughout Latin America for decades until the final one effectively came to a close as the Colombian government and the FARC rebels signed a peace deal in the Colombian coastal city of Cartagena.
"Long live Colombia, long live peace," the crowd chanted as Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and rebel leader Rodrigo Londono, both dressed in all white, shook hands on Monday evening.
The deal brings peace to a country that has endured more than a half-century of civil war. Yet widely overlooked is the far more sweeping notion that it brings down the curtain on six decades of nonstop conflicts in Latin America.
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/09/27/495522306/guess-what-as-of-today-the-western-hemisphere-has-no-wars
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Guess What? As Of Today, The Western Hemisphere Has No Wars (Original Post)
rug
Sep 2016
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underpants
(182,879 posts)1. Excellent news. Thanks for posting this.
except for the War on Terror
the War on Drugs
And the undeclared war on Black people
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,040 posts)3. Western Hemisphere wars have been outsourced. . . . . nt
cwydro
(51,308 posts)4. But, the drones we send daily to the eastern world don't count. Right? nt
rug
(82,333 posts)6. This reminds me of the half a sphere proverb.
Well played.
EX500rider
(10,858 posts)5. Sort of...
....FARC has agreed to lay down their arms but the smaller ELN in Colombia has not.
Rex
(65,616 posts)8. Well too much social destruction, had to end sometimes.
Won't stay that way. Got to treat peace as something special, it never hangs around very long.