The Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos He affirmed, during a meeting on Wednesday, April 23, that The ‘total peace’ of President Gustavo Petro It was badly conceived from the beginning and that Armed groups have taken advantage of negotiations to strengthen themselves.
“The ‘total peace’ was badly conceived from the beginning. As we told President Petro, peace processes require planning, require rigor and method“Santos said in a talk in The American Colombian Chamber (Amcham), which celebrated 70 years of founded.
(See: ‘I can’t get drunk’: Petro said I didn’t drink alcohol due to health problems).
Santos ruled Colombia between 2010 and 2018, And he signed the peace agreement with the demobilized guerrillas of the Farc in 2016, achievement for which he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016 thanks to his efforts to end the armed conflict of more than 50 years in the country.
“You have to know who is being negotiated and required to negotiate, on the one hand, with a carrot, and, on the other hand, with a club. Here what has been only carrot“Santos said in reference to The way Petro conducts peace processes with different armed groups.
(See: The hard letter from former chancellor Álvaro Leyva President Petro).
In that sense, Santos said that “The interlocutors have used to strengthen themselves in the different regions and that is why the country is seeing that insecurity has increased“
The ‘total peace’ has had inconvenience. He has not been able to negotiate with the Gulf Clan, the main criminal gang of Colombia, suspended the conversations with the guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN), although he maintains the dialogues with a fraction of them, led by Alias Calarcá.
Juan Manuel Santos.
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In Medellín, follow the process with the local bands and the same in Buenaventura, where he dialogues with the Shottas and the Spartans, after they broke a 19 -month truce.
(See: President Petro believes that the United States government withdrew the visa).
Buenaventura, city of about 450,000 inhabitants, The population lives confined and cannot go from one neighborhood to another because armed groups prevent the normal circulation of people.
Over there, In addition to gangs, there is a strong presence of the ELN, the Dissidencies of the FARC and the Gulf clan, that dispute the control of the area to handle the drug trafficking chain.
(See: Popular consultation: Government will present the text to Congress on May 1).
EFE
