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Weekly Update: Implementing the Peace Agreement.
This callout box includes a weekly update on releases and work specifically related implementing the Final Peace Accord between the Government and the FARC in Colombia.
Seizures of FARC assets this week raised doubts about the group’s compliance with the Peace Accord. Authorities seized assets valued at more than US$234 million (70% of the FARC’s declared wealth) , and arrested several individuals suspected of laundering money through a chain of small supermarkets tied to the former guerrilla group. The Peace Accord with the FARC requires that they make an inventory of their assets in order to fund the reparation of victims of the armed conflict, and the legal benefits they enjoy are dependent on their providing this information2 . The seizure and arrests could undermine the demobilized guerrillas’ political party, the Common Alternative Revolutionary Force (FARC), during the upcoming elections.