The largest group of dissidents of the extinct Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia (FARC) declared a unilateral ceasefire until January 2, announced this Saturday the office of the Peace Commissioner of the Presidency of the Republic.
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“Listening to the communities and the organizational processes, the Central General Staff (EMC) of the Farc dissidents declared a unilateral ceasefire until January 2, 2023“, the High Commissioner for Peace wrote on Twitter.
In earlier days, the National Liberation Army (ELN) announced a truce, while carrying out, in Caracas (Venezuela), peace negotiations with the Colombian government.
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Both organizations promised to cease attacks against the public forces until January 2.
According to President Gustavo Petro, other illegal structures, such as the dissidence of the Farc Segunda Marquetalia, paramilitaries from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and gangs from the port of Buenaventura, the most important on the Pacific, have also declared a ceasefire.
“We hope that real peace processes will be consolidated“Petro wrote on Twitter after the announcement of the so-called Central General Staff of the Farc.
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at the head of aka Ivan Mordisco, the rebels have expressed their interest in being part of the ‘total peace’, the policy with which Petro intends to extinguish, through dialogue, the armed conflict that continues in Colombia despite the dissolution of the Farc.
In September the peace commissioner, Danilo Rueda, met in the department of Caquetá with delegates of the EMC of the Farc to explore a possible negotiation, which has not officially started.
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The independent study center indepaz he estimates that ‘Iván Mordisco’ has some 2,000 guerrillas under his command.
According to Rueda, the former number two of the old Farcy peace negotiator in Havana, alias Iván Márquez, leader of the Second Marquetalia, He is also interested in participating in the peace talks proposed by Petro.
AFP
