Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Peter DeShazo, director of the CSIS Americas Program, was quoted by the New York Times, "Bold Colombia Rescue Built on Rebel Group's Disarray."
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Peter DeShazo, director of the CSIS Americas Program, was quoted by the New York Times, "Bold Colombia Rescue Built on Rebel Group's Disarray."
At 5 a.m. on Wednesday, the sun had yet to peek through the jungle canopy in this country’s Guaviare Department when the guerrillas told their captives to gather their belongings. A call had come in from a top adviser to Alfonso Cano, their new supreme commander. He said to move. Immediately.
Or so the guerrillas thought. In fact, the gravelly voice that sounded so full of authority belonged not to a grizzled leader of Latin America’s most feared insurgent group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, but rather to a government officer. [...]
“It’s reaching the point where most of the leaders of the FARC are going to say, ‘We’re not going to win, we don’t have a chance,’ ” said Peter DeShazo, director of the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. “And when they reach that point, then political negotiation becomes more possible.”
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