Salvatore Mancuso, leader of the AUC, acknowledged the “willingness” of the Petro government to resolve the problem of land distribution in Colombia. He expressed that if you had the ability to generate an armed conflict of great proportions, you can also help stop it.
Former Colombian paramilitary chief Salvatore Mancuso, who is detained in Georgia, United States, sent a letter to the president of the neighboring country, Gustavo Petro, requesting an appointment to talk with him and that his commitment to total peace continues « intact”.
Mancuso, in his letter published by President Petro in the social networkssaid that the delivery of land in Córdoba as part of the agrarian reform that it is carrying out makes it clear that there are “unfinished issues” that were pending execution or that were not fulfilled after the negotiation and demobilization of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC). ).
He greeted and acknowledged the “willingness” of the Petro government to resolve the problem of land distribution in Colombia and said that “for the good of the country, we must all take a step forward to resolve the land problem, guarantee the rights of the agrarian sector as a whole and to dignify the life of our peasant and rural population».
Salvatore Mancuso expressed that if one had the capacity to generate an armed conflict of great proportions, one can also help stop it. He assured that since he led the demobilization process of the AUC, he has done so with the truth in front of him and without having things to hide, nor does he show that he wants property.
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He added that he is not afraid of what he has said or what he has to say and therefore said that he has no impediment to assume the tasks that lead to total peace in Colombia.
This is the letter I received from Salvatore Mancuso about the evaluation of his peace process and our proposal for Total Peace. pic.twitter.com/1NUsWnnZC4
– Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) October 31, 2022
The letter sent by Salvatore Mancuso came after this weekend, President Gustavo Petro handed over a 590-hectare farm that belonged to former paramilitary chief Carlos Castaño, as reparation to 50 victim families in the town of Montería. There, the Colombian president welcomed the initiative of the former guerrilla in the search for total peace.
“That Mancuso wants to be a peace manager? Let’s talk (…) If what I want is for him to help here so that there is no war,” said the president, adding: “I am not afraid of him speaking. I don’t know who will be afraid of him speaking, but there must be truth,” he said. The Colombian.
Former guerrilla leader Salvatore Mancuso, currently imprisoned in a US prison for crimes related to drug trafficking, has tried on several occasions to benefit from the Special Jurisdiction for Peace that emerged in 2016 after the signing of the peace agreements with the FARC.
The “total peace” agreement is an initiative promoted by Petro so that the paramilitary groups lay down their weapons and sit down to negotiate. He has managed to reactivate the talks with the ELN, while the dissidents of the FARC, the Second Marquetalia and the Clan del Golfo have expressed their intention to adhere to this proposal.
With information from Notimeric / Change / radio snail /
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