Colombia's FARC rebels come in from the cold
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In Colombia, more than 50 years of bloody fighting marked by atrocities may finally have come to an end. But peace won't come easy when former combatants have to live side by side.
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| 0:00.0 | Here Be Monsters is a show that invites you to explore fear and the unknown. |
| 0:05.0 | I saw her face change. I saw her see where I pulled my hair out. |
| 0:10.0 | Psychological warfare was always considered kind of an oddity, something done by freaks. |
| 0:15.0 | On the count of three, we're literally going to step out of our body. |
| 0:20.0 | Step out. |
| 0:29.0 | You can find Here Be Monsters Now at KCRW.com or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:38.1 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:43.1 | After decades of war in Colombia, peace has a chance. |
| 0:48.9 | Hello again, I'm Orman Alney, and this is To the Point. |
| 0:52.4 | 200,000 people have died, millions have been displaced. |
| 0:54.5 | In the Western Hemisphere's longest-running conflict, which began in 1964. It's been a classic struggle, peasant farmers and Marxist rebels |
| 1:00.7 | against urban landowners using death squads and right-wing paramilitaries. Now there's a peace deal |
| 1:06.3 | if Colombia's voters approve it next month. But both sides have committed atrocities over the years. |
| 1:12.5 | Can victims and perpetrators learn to live side by side? |
| 1:16.4 | We'll look at the history, the hopes and the fears of a beleaguered nation. |
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| 2:05.3 | Hello again, Warren. I'll be back with To The Point. In Colombia, more than 50 years of bloody fighting marked by atrocities may finally have come to an end. |
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