Remember the fury of the left at the impunity of Chile's Pinochet, Guatemala's Rios Montt, and Peru's Fujimori?
The Times, which of course supported the long efforts to see the aforenamed anti-Communist leaders punished, seems annoyed that the shoe is on the other foot in Colombia.
No one should expect that they will for years in and years out repeatedly rehearse in graphic detail the crimes and atrocities of the FARC, insisting justice, decency, and morality require the FARC leaders be publicly condemned, vilified, and then imprisoned for life with no chance of parole.
That sort of treatment they reserve for anti-Communists.
During Mr. Uribe’s tenure in the seat Mr. Londoño hopes to occupy, he led a brutal military campaign against the FARC.
After his presidency, he led the successful effort to vote down the peace deal in an initial referendum in October 2016.
The deal was ultimately passed in November 2016 by lawmakers.
The FARC’s decision to suspend its campaign, in which it is running 74 candidates across both houses of congress, is a dispiriting moment in a peace process that struggles to maintain public support.
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Still, many Colombians are unable to look past the wartime atrocities he is accused of overseeing.
A faction of society still considers him a terrorist, and wants him to answer for his role in a half-century-long conflict that left at least 220,000 dead and nearly seven million displaced.
That "faction" was the majority of voters who rejected the peace deal, when given the chance.
That "faction" was overruled by lawmakers whose action the Times clearly supports.
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