{"id":10024,"date":"2016-08-31T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=10024"},"modified":"2016-08-31T12:04:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T16:04:16","slug":"colombian-peace-process-learn-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/colombian-peace-process-learn-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Colombian Peace Process Means for a Generation of Spanish Learners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since late last year, the Colombian Proceso de Paz<\/a><\/em> has been marching forward, bringing Colombia ever closer to a peace that’s been hoped for for generations. This week, it’s again making international headlines, as the Colombian government and the FARC have just formally ratified a “definitive ceasefire<\/a>” and the beginning of\u00a0the end of the world’s longest ongoing armed conflict.<\/p>\n

Monday morning Colombian news magazine Semana<\/i> published a story with the title Colombia despierta sin guerra con las FARC<\/a><\/i>. And that’s a headline for the history books. According to the article:<\/p>\n

Las armas de las FARC, que sembraron miedo durante 52 a\u00f1os, quedaron en silencio a partir de la medianoche. A las 00:00 de este lunes 29 de agosto, el conflicto armado con esta guerrilla, la m\u00e1s antigua del continente, lleg\u00f3 a su fin.\u00a0Comenz\u00f3 as\u00ed el esperado cese al fuego bilateral y definitivo, decretado desde el pasado jueves por el presidente Juan Manuel Santos, y reconfirmado este domingo cuando el m\u00e1ximo jefe de las FARC dio la misma orden a sus casi 8.000 hombres armados.
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While attempts at brokering a peace accord have taken place in the past in Colombia, the current\u00a0cese al fuego bilateral y definitivo\u00a0<\/em>places Colombia and all of Latin America in historically uncharted and promising new territory.<\/p>\n

El conflicto armado interno de Colombia<\/i> is in 2016 the longest-running active armed conflict in the world, dating back officially to 1964 but with roots reaching back to the period of La Violencia<\/i> starting in 1948. What began largely\u00a0as a national conflicto agrario<\/i><\/a> and South American manifestation of La Guerra Fr\u00eda<\/i> has since spent more than half a century ripping apart Colombia and spilling out across Latin America.<\/p>\n

This video from Colombian news magazine\u00a0Semana\u00a0<\/em>gives a handy three-minute summary (in Spanish) of the conflict and its origins:<\/p>\n