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A peace deal should "take time, hopefully not lives"

On Sunday the Colombian public voted against a peace deal that would have resulted in the Farc militia formally agreeing to give up their 52-year-old armed conflict with the state. Colombian novelist Juan Gabriel Vasquez, who supported the deal, explains why it was rejected.

(Image: A man in Cali, Colombia, holding up a newspaper carrying the headline: 'Plebiscite divides the country'. Credit: Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images)

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