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Colombia, Rebels Hope Rising Trust Can Yield Peace | Synopsis

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Colombia, Rebels Hope Rising Trust Can Yield Peace

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While the angry rhetoric and bombs continue to fly back home, Colombian rebels and government negotiators in peace talks in the Cuban capital describe an increasingly collegial atmosphere and growing trust between otherwise mortal enemies. Negotiators for the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as the FARC, kibbutz about the latest soccer results and tease the unofficial timekeeper of the talks when it's time for a break. They share cigarettes and aromatic Cuban cigars, and even huddle around a computer screen to hash over design ideas for the website they've developed together for those seeking information about the negotiations. Participants say it's arresting to see longtime foes who have spent the better part of half a century killing each other's friends and colleagues behaving so cordially — and the best hope by far that they will find common ground.

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Rodrigo Granda

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Relevance: 0.783137

Ricardo Tellez

Overall Sentiment: 0.0546938

Relevance: 0.569

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-0.253056Ricardo Tellez, said the two sides "never forget that we come from opposing sides of a conflict which has not yet ended."
0.180953he added: "There's still room for a joke, or a smile... We have been building confidence and that is extremely important."
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  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.072103
  • Mean: -0.0360515
  • Standard Deviation: 0

Juan Manuel Santos

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Relevance: 0.517619

Jaime Avendano

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Relevance: 0.473417

Ivan Marquez

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Relevance: 0.472314

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Sport: soccer

Overall Sentiment: -0.471024

Relevance: 0.476132

Country: Colombia

Overall Sentiment: 0.0409148

Relevance: 0.482621

Country: Norway

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Relevance: 0.415751

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City: Oslo

Overall Sentiment: 0.069937

Relevance: 0.423323

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City: Havana

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.389544

Organization: government

Overall Sentiment: 0.0773273

Relevance: 0.656206

Organization: Cuban government

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.578266

Company: The Associated Press

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.37872

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