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    Colombia's presidential election could signal end of peace pact with former FARC rebels, analysts say

    by Chris Kraul, Los Angeles Times May 26, 2018 3 minutes

    BOGOTA, Colombia - Colombians go to the polls Sunday in a historic presidential election that could decide the fate of the already precarious peace agreement by the country's largest and most violent rebel group and the government of outgoing president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Juan Manuel Santos.

    The election is the first in Colombia since the disarmament of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, under terms of the peace deal signed in November 2016 that ended 52 years of civil conflict. Depending on who wins,

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