Another day, another deadly bombardment by the guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) against an ill-defended town. This time, the target was Granada, in the north-west of the country, where an assault last week involving a car bomb and home-made mortars destroyed several streets and left 20 dead, 15 of them civilians. With no let-up in such attacks, nor in the kidnappings that help to finance them, public support for the stalled peace talks with the FARC has reached bottom. But the peace process, launched amid high hopes two years ago, still has one important supporter in President Andres Pastrana. He has staked his beleaguered government on its eventual success. And so Mr Pastrana continues to resist—but only just—a mounting clamour to call the whole enterprise off.
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