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Colombia envoy on peace mission
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - A government envoy flew into a rebel-held southern
enclave Thursday on a widely watched mission that could decide the fate of
negotiations to end Colombia's 36-year conflict. Presidential peace
commissioner Camilo Gomez was investigating allegations that leftist
guerrillas assassinated a prominent congressman last week. Gomez was meeting
outside the town of San Vicente del Caguan with rebel leaders, including
Manuel Marulanda, the aging founder of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia, or FARC, the envoy's office told The Associated Press. The Dec. 29
assassination of Diego Turbay, who headed a congressional peace committee,
has unleashed heated calls for President Andres Pastrana to either suspend
or alter the course on peace talks with the FARC. Turbay, his mother, and
five others were stopped on a highway in southern Caqueta State, not far
from FARC headquarters, and shot in the head.
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