FARC rebels end unilateral ceasefire

The Associated Press HAVANA (AP)—Colombia’s largest rebel group said Wednesday it will not extend a monthlong unilateral ceasefire it declared on Dec. 15, 2013, and threw its support behind the embattled mayor of the South American nation’s capital.

Jorge Torres, a high-ranking guerrilla who goes by the nom de guerre Pablo Catatumbo, said the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, wants the world to know it maintained its ceasefire even as Colombian government forces continued military action.

“Fifty years of nonstop war prove that the end of the conflict and peace will not be attained through the repression and brute force of the state,” he said, reading a statement outside a Havana convention center where peace talks have been taking place since late 2012.

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