President Alvaro Uribe might claim that he is having rather more success in disarming the right-wing vigilantes of the United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC) than his predecessor managed in three years of talks with their opponents, the left-wing FARC guerrillas. But his critics say the peace talks begun last year with the AUC involve a hasty de facto pardon for gangs of mass-murderers and drug traffickers. In any event, the talks got a big boost this week, when the Organisation of American States endorsed them.
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