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"Demining is an essential part of rebuilding in the wake of what has been this longest-running war," said John Kerry.

"Most of the economic benefits of peace in terms of increased investment and tourism have already been felt," said Adam Collins of Capital Economics.

These newly pledged funds are on top of the 4 million euros committed by the EU in 2015 for similar work.

Canada's pledge is the latest in a series of international commitments, including a $450 million USD commitment from the United States.

“Parts of Colombia haven’t grown at all for years because of the conflict and the absence of the state," said President Juan Manuel Santos.

"If the war continues we'll have to raise taxes to finance it," said Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos.

"We will go back to the state of war” if the peace deal doesn't pass the popular vote, said Santos during the first day of a World Economic Forum event in Medellín.

Dole Food Company, Inc. today announced that the Los Angeles Superior Court dismissed with prejudice the case Perez v. Dole Food Company, Inc. The lawsuit, which was filed in 2009, had been brought by 167 Colombian plaintiffs claiming that Dole had funded the Autodefensas Unidas...

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today designated two high-ranking members of the violent Colombian drug trafficking organization Los Urabeños as Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers (SDNTs) pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics...

STATEMENT BY SECRETARY KERRY Colombia Peace Process I am very pleased to see that the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have reached major breakthroughs on the outstanding issues in the peace process negotiations:  transitional justice,...