"United Nations observers are in hot water in Colombia over a video showing them dancing with leftist rebels while deployed to watch over the guerrillas as part of a peace deal.
The short video was shot by Spanish news agency EFE from inside a jungle camp in northern Colombia during a New Year's Eve party. It shows two men wearing blue vests with U.N. insignia dancing hip-to-hip with female guerrillas.
The images ... drew sharp rebuke from opponents of the peace deal between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
'What a joke,' conservative lawmaker Maria Fernanda Cabal blasted out on Twitter. 'How can we trust in the U.N. delegates' impartiality when they go partying with the FARC?'..."
January 3, 2017
UN Staff in Hot Water for Dancing with Colombian Rebels
UN staff in blue vests dancing with Colombian rebels
Date
January 3, 2017
Title
U.N. Staff in Hot Water for Dancing with Colombian Rebels, CBS News
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AP
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