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osed125 said:
robzo100 said:
  • There's finally peace in Colombia

If I understand everything correctly, this one is false.

The president of Colombia (Juan Manuel Santos), made a deal with the FARC; this deal was so stupid I don't think anything comes close to it; the deal let all FARC members to go free without any trial, the government actually had to pay money to the FARC members for a few years (this meant increasing the taxes), and some other stupid things, but those are the main ones.

There was a vote to accept or reject this deal, and rightly so, the people voted to not accept the deal, so there's no peace yet; Santos is back to square one.

Just like Obama winning the Nobel price, giving the Nobel price to Santos is so idiotic I don't know where to begin.

Fair enough. The OP was more of a starting point for conversation, def. didn't know about the details on that one specifically.