COLOMBIA’S 52-year civil war killed 220,000 people and displaced 7m more. But on August 24th last year, after four years of painstaking negotiations in Havana, its government announced it had secured a hard-won peace deal with the FARC. The guerrilla army agreed to renounce armed conflict and embrace politics.

COLOMBIA’S 52-year civil war killed 220,000 people and displaced 7m more. But on August 24th last year, after four years of painstaking negotiations in Havana, its government announced it had secured a hard-won peace deal with the FARC. The guerrilla army agreed to renounce armed conflict and embrace politics.