COLOMBIA’S PRESIDENT ANDRES PASTRANA BROKE OFF THE PEACE PROCESS WITH ...

World | February 21, 2002, Thursday // 00:00

Colombia’s President Andres Pastrana broke off the peace process with leftist rebels Wednesday, hours after the guerrillas hijacked a jetliner and kidnapped a prominent senator. In a nationally televised address, Pastrana gave the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia until midnight to abandon the vast safe haven he granted them at the beginning of the process. The highly organized hijacking angered a nation already fed up with peace talks that have gone nowhere amid a war that continues to escalate.

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