The president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, will meet Wednesday in Havana with FARC leaders after nearly three years of negotiations between delegations of both parties in search of the end of armed conflict in the country, amid reports of an imminent agreement historic.
In addition, negotiators sources quoted by Efe added that the presence is expected at the meeting, at 17.00 Local horal (23.00 CET Spanish) Cuban President Raul Castro.
Santos makes this shift on a scale in his trip to the United States in which presumably will meet with Pope Francis, who has already played an important role as a mediator in the other major conflict on the continent, including the US and Cuba, whose communist regime has a strong ascendant on the Colombian Marxist guerrillas.
Local and international media assume that these movements are due to the government and the FARC will announce a landmark agreement on transitional justice, the thorniest point of the peace talks that next November will be three years.
According to the private Caracol Radio, the agreement will establish a special court and convictions that would not be paid with jail by the guerrillas but in agricultural colonies, besides participating in demining programs and truth commissions.
Half a century of armed struggle
Santos's meeting with FARC leaders in any case represents a milestone in the peace process and the history of the country, although there were other presidents interviews with guerrilla leaders.
According to the Colombian government, to agree on transitional justice is one of the best news you could receive Colombia in the last half century and one of the most important in the country's history.
Justice is the heart of peace negotiations and an agreement on the issue, the dream of building a country where peace is starting to become a reality ", according to the Government.
The FARC, which had declared a few months ago an indefinite cease fire unilaterally, then agreed last week to reach a "definitive agreement, starting point for democratic change and progressive" and stressed the need to listen "fully-voices of the public, the word of the people through their social and political organizations, reviewing and deciding on the course of the peace process and the destination of Colombia. "
