The Colombian government and the FARC rebel group have spent four years negotiating a peace deal to bring an end to more than 50 years of war. Terms were agreed on, a deal was finalized, the accord was signed — and then, in a stunning turn of events, the people of Colombia voted against the agreement in a national referendum Sunday. So. What now? One thing presumably won't be happening: the FARC rebels won't be handing over their weapons to the United Nations, as they had agreed to do once the deal was final . But what will happen next is harder to say. "It's not going to mean that Colombia plunges back into war immediately," John Otis reports for NPR from Bogota . President Juan Manuel Santos says he intends to maintain a bilateral cease-fire that's been in effect for several months. And, Otis says, the overall intensity of the war has been lower for the past several years. The challenge now will be whether Santos and the FARC can revive the peace agreement after it's been rejected by
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