A sign reading “Land for Peace” is seen during an event of the Colombian presidency to handover of thousands of acres of land, once taken over by paramilitaries, as reparations for victims of the country's six-decade-long conflict, in Monteria, Colombia October 3, 2024. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez
MONTERIA, Colombia (Reuters) - President Gustavo Petro, Colombia's first leftist leader, promised his government would acquire 3 million hectares (7.4 million acres) of land for victims of the country's six-decade conflict, to meet the terms of a 2016 peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
It has not proved easy.
