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Cuba plays critical role in Colombia peace deal

August 25, 2016

Alan Gómez, USA Today

Cuba may seem an unlikely peace broker given its history of leading and inspiring armed revolutions.

But Cuban leaders Fidel and Raúl Castro traded in their military fatigues for business suits long ago, culminating in a new role in Latin America that made Cuba the ideal choice as the host and facilitator of the peace negotiations between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.

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