The armed teams nonetheless working in Colombia, the world’s largest cocaine producer, are locked in lethal disputes over drug trafficking revenues and different unlawful companies.
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Colombia’s authorities has agreed to a six-month ceasefire with the 5 largest armed teams working within the nation, President Gustavo Petro has introduced.
The truce deal introduced on Sunday, was the principle goal of Petro’s “total peace” coverage, which goals to finish the nation’s armed battle and has persevered regardless of the dissolution of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in 2017.
The armed teams nonetheless working in Colombia, the world’s largest cocaine producer, are locked in lethal disputes over drug trafficking revenues and different unlawful companies, based on the Institute for Development and Peace Studies (Indepaz), an unbiased assume tank.
“We have agreed to a bilateral ceasefire with the ELN, the Second Marquetalia, the Central General Staff, the AGC and the Self-Defense Forces of the Sierra Nevada from January 1 to June 30, 2023, extendable depending on progress in the negotiations,” Petro tweeted.
Despite the federal government’s efforts to barter with Colombia’s numerous armed teams, which embody a mixed complete of greater than 10,000 fighters, it has up to now did not comprise the spiral of violence engulfing the nation. Indepaz recorded almost 100 massacres final 12 months.
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50 years of battle
The National Liberation Army (ELN), the final recognised insurgency within the nation, has been negotiating with the federal government since November.
The Segunda Marquetalia and Estado Mayor Central teams – splinter factions of FARC which broke from the 2016 peace pact – have held separate talks with the federal government.
AGC, the nation’s largest drug gang, is made up of the remnants of utmost right-wing paramilitaries that have been demobilised within the early 2000s.
The authorities is providing the teams “benevolent treatment from the judicial point of view” for the armed actors “in exchange for a surrender of assets, a dismantling of these organisations and the possibility that they stop exercising these illicit economies”, Senator Ivan Cepeda just lately stated.
Some dissidents refused to put down their arms alongside their FARC comrades six years in the past, when the fearsome insurgent military signed the cope with Bogota to finish greater than 5 a long time of battle.
Colombia has suffered greater than 50 years of armed battle between the state and numerous teams of left-wing guerrillas, right-wing paramilitaries and drug traffickers.
When he took energy final August, Petro, the nation’s first leftist president, vowed to barter with all Colombian armed teams as a part of a “total peace” coverage.
There are at the moment round 90 political and prison teams working within the nation, based on Indepaz.
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Source: AFP
