Colombia, FARC Reach Deal on Drug Trade

Colombia's government and the rebel group FARC say they have reached an agreement on ending the illegal drug trade. The deal calls for FARC to cooperate with the government in convincing farmers to grow crops other than coca, which is used to make cocaine. The announcement was made Friday in Havana where the two sides have been negotiating an end to a 50-year-old insurgency. Colombia was the world's leading producer of cocaine until Peru recently overtook it in cultivation...

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