Commanders of the Far dissidentsc ensured, this Sunday, April 16, to be ready to start a new dialogue table on May 16 with the National Government, in an attempt to demobilize some 3,000 guerrillas who remained in arms after the historic peace agreement of 2016.
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“We announce to the whole world that our delegates at the dialogue table with the Colombian State, headed by the National Government, are ready for May 16 of this year.“begin peace negotiations,” announced from a dais the spokeswoman known as angela left, in the framework of a massive meeting of commanders of the Farc dissidents in San Vicente del Caguan, department of Caquetá.
The main commanders of the Farc dissidence accompanied the woman.
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At his side, the leader of the dissidence Central Staff (EMC) known as ivan bite and their combatants supported the announcements while thousands of people, peasants, members of social organizations and sympathizers of the rebellion, listened.
Besides, “We see with good intentions the installation of the oversight, monitoring and verification mechanism on April 26“, to check that the agreement is fulfilled, added Izquierdo without specifying in which country the dialogue table will take place.
Left for dead last year by the authorities, Iván Mordisco smiled wearing his huge glasses and wearing a camouflaged fatigues.
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From an improvised wooden platform, he heard the repeated praise of the “popular struggle” of the “guerrillas”, “comrades” and “peasant guards”.
The EMC is the main dissident group of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), an organization that refused to sign the historic 2016 peace agreement between the government at the time and this guerrilla.
Izquierdo, the spokeswoman, maintained that this time the conditions are in place for “the unfolding of a possible peace“.
Those led by Iván Mordisco consider themselves the true heirs of the Farc (for a long time the most powerful guerrilla in America), and in recent months they have reorganized with new dissident fronts operating in different regions of Colombia.
It is estimated that there are about 3,000 men who operate mainly in the Amazonas, on the Pacific coast and on the border with Venezuela.
In the meeting in the Yarí savannah, in the Amazonian foothills, the FARC dissidents responded to the negotiation proposal of the President Gustavo Petro, in power since August 2022.
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Under his “total peace” policy, the president hopes to extinguish more than half a century of internal conflict that followed the peace agreement that disarmed the bulk of the then guerrilla group seven years ago and transformed it into a politic party.
Farc dissidents.
At the initiative of Petro it was agreed a six-month bilateral ceasefire with the main factions of the FARC dissidence since January 1, as well as with other armed groups.
Colombia is experiencing an armed conflict that persists after the 2016 peace agreement and confronts rebels, drug traffickers and state agents in a protracted war leaves more than 9 million victims.
AFP
