The Colombian military and President Jose Manuel Santos are claiming their greatest victory in the 45-year-long civil war against leftist guerillas. On Thursday, a night-time bombardment claimed the life of 'Mono Jojoy', military leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the largest guerilla army in the country. Forrest Hylton, professor of history and political science at Los Andes University in Bogota, says the death of such a hard-line leader could make peace negotiations more likely. Furthermore, says Hylton if President Santos is serious about his intentions to push land reform, that will largely undercut the reason for the FARC's existence as an army largely made up of rural peasants. But, Hylton cautions, the civil war isn't the source of most violence and insecurity in Colombia, and peace between the government and the FARC won't solve the country's surging urban violence.
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