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Trouble brewing for Colombia’s fragile peace deal as Covid hits rehabilitation projects The pandemic has dealt a further blow to efforts to reintegrate ex-Farc fighters into mainstream society Ex-Farc fighter Alexander Monroy brewing beer Credit: La Trocha Five years ago, Alexander Monroy was an urban militant living clandestinely on the outskirts of Colombia’s capital city, Bogotá. He was a member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), then the country’s most powerful leftist guerrilla group, fighting a half-century-long armed conflict that cost the lives of more than 2...

A GROUP of 10 ex-combatants of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) have been slowly growing a craft beer start-up since they signed the peace deal with the government in 2016. They are now leading a fundraising campaign to acquire a headquarters in Colombia’s capital Bogota. It will be known as the House of Peace, and the ex-combatants wish for it to be a place where you can have a beer whilst talking politics, organising, educating, and planning the construction of the yearned-for Nueva Colombia. Despite four years of government backpedalling and the assassination of close t...