Int'l Financial Backing Needed for Colombia Peace Deal to Succeed
- 9 years ago
A significant amount of international funding will be necessary to implement the historic agreement on transitional justice reached last Wednesday between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. Minister of Internal Revenue Mauricio Cardenas said that Bogota would provide an estimate within six months of the price tag of a peace settlement. Thus far Colombia has spent the equivalent of 1% of its GDP on victims' reparations. teleSUR