The top negotiator for Colombia’s leftist FARC rebel group said Monday he was confident that the nearly 50 year old guerrilla war is almost over.
“We understand, and the country understands it as well, that wars are not eternal, and we feel certain somehow that Colombia is near the end of the conflict,” Ivan Marquez said in a radio interview.
Marquez is the FARC’s number two and the rebel group’s lead negotiator in peace talks with the government that have been underway in Havana since November.
“If artificial impediments are not put in the way, this will flow quickly,” he said in the interview with RCN radio.