Colombia peace talks to resume November 28 after delay

Peace talks between the Colombian government and the leftist FARC rebels will resume on November 28, after a 10-day postponement, a joint statement said Monday. The delay was in order for the two sides to "refine visions, exchange documents and analyze the various proposals received from different sectors of society," the statement said, published on the site pazfarc-ep.org. The talks had been scheduled to resume Monday to take on the third agenda item, illegal drug trafficking, which the FARC is alleged to have abetted to finance their operations. So far, a year after the talks began on November 19, 2012, the negotiations have resolved two of the five key points on the agenda. The two sides must also still resolve questions on compensation for victims and disarmament. The half-century old guerrilla war -- Latin America's longest-running insurgency -- has left hundreds of thousands of dead and displaced more than 4.5 million people. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or the FARC, has some 7,000 to 8,000 fighters, Colombia's largest rebel group.