Colombia’s main leftist group suggested on Monday it is willing to reopen talks with the government.

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as the FARC, has been at war with the state since the 1960s. While severely weakened in recent years, the guerrilla group has continued to carry out kidnappings and attack security forces.

In a statement, the FARC said it would be interested in addressing certain issues at a “hypothetical negotiating table.” It called on the government of President Juan Manuel Santos to speak to such subjects as privatization, deregulation and the degradation of the environment.

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Colombian army forces have killed “Alfonso Cano,” the supreme leader of the FARC, the country’s Defense Minister confirmed Friday.

The country’s defense minister said the country’s most wanted man was killed earlier that day following a bombing raid in the south west of the country.

According to Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon, Cano was killed while being persecuted by armed forces in the southwestern Cauca department, hours after a number of his closest men were killed in a bombing raid in Suarez, a rural municipality in the southwestern Cauca department.

Cano’s death was confirmed by authorities after his body was examined by forensic scientists.

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Three Colombian soldiers were killed and at least another four wounded in southwest Colombia Wednesday during two separate confrontations with the leftist guerrilla group FARC.

The first attack occurred in the rural area of Florencia, Caqueta when alleged members of the Teofilo Forero Mobile Column of the FARC ambushed a patrol from the mountains and killed two soldiers.

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Two soldiers have been killed and two others injured following an attack on a military base in Peru’s coca growing Apurimac and Ene river valleys, or VRAE, daily La Republica reported.

The attack occurred against the Mantario Union military base by remnants of the Shining Path insurgency. The group used long range weapons to fire on the base and then fled into the jungle, the report said.

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FARC guerrillas attacked a local market in southwest Colombia Saturday killing at least three people and injuring 70 others in the southwestern town of Toribio, its mayor told French press agency AFP.

“It was a brutal attack by the FARC against the people of Toribio,” mayor Carlso Banguero said. “It appears they used a car bomb loaded with 220 pounds (100 kilos) of explosives and set it off in the center of town at the market,” he added.

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