It seemed miraculous when the Colombian government signed a peace agreement with Marxist-inspired insurgents in 2016, ending a half-century of conflict that killed at least 220,000 people and devastated the countryside.
Former President Juan Manuel Santos was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the complex accord with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. From before the time it was signed, though, many opposed it, furious that rebels or soldiers would go unpunished, or doubting that the government would follow through on promises of rural assistance.