Abstract
With the election of a new President at the end of May, there is a real prospect of internal peace in Colombia for the first time in almost 40 years. The President, Belisario Betancur Cuartas, has made friendly enough noises for the country's two main guerilla groups, M-19 and FARC (19 April Movement and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, respectively) to call a truce, and agree to meet him for peace negotiations.