Mutual recrimination between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, threatens to derail an historic peace accord.

The FARC-Colombia agreement closed a chapter on a wide-ranging 52-year civil conflict that took the lives of at least 220,000 people - 80 per cent of them civilians - and left nearly six million people displaced.

But the recent high-profile arrest on drugs trafficking charges of Jesus Santrich, a former FARC member and Congress member-elect who was intimately involved in the peace process, has fuelled Farc's ire.

And with FARC failing to add to its ten guaranteed congressional seats in recent legislative elections and the centre-right Democratic Centre party in the ascendancy, the November 2016 peace deal is at a critical juncture.

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