In the two years since President Andres Pastrana launched his peace initiative with the FARC, Colombia's largest guerrilla force has been rather more adept than the government at extracting political mileage from their talks. So it was again last week. When a score of ambassadors from the European Union countries, Canada and Japan visited guerrilla territory to discuss drug eradication and human rights with Manuel Marulanda, the FARC's veteran leader, and his lieutenants, they were met by an honour guard of armed guerrillas, snapped into formation by a rebel commander.
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