How Colombia Left the Abyss (The U.S. Helped)

President Obama hosts his Colombian counterpart Juan Manuel Santos in Washington next week. Their meeting comes on the eve of a potential peace deal between the government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the Marxist insurgency that for half a century has sought to topple the Colombian state. The two leaders will use the occasion to review U.S-Colombia relations, highlighted by 15 years of bilateral cooperation under the rubric of “Plan Colombia,” and to discuss to the peace process.