On 23 June 2016, the government and the FARC reached agreement on three of the main points – the bilateral and final ceasefire, the dismantling of weapons and security guarantees – of the third point “End of the conflict”. Here is a brief history of the peace process that has taken place so far: the Comprehensive Rural Reform (RRI) aims to lay the foundations for the transformation of rural Colombia, to create the necessary conditions to ensure the health and well-being of rural populations and thus contribute to ensuring the non-resumption of conflict and to establishing a stable and lasting peace. The peace talks were formally established on 18 October 2012 in Oslo, Norway, and transferred in November to their permanent site in Havana. [27] The speech given in October by farC chief negotiator Iván Márquez at the establishment of dialogues in Oslo was interpreted as more radical than expected by the Colombian media, as they invoked a provocative tone against the government by mentioning items excluded from the agenda (economic model, foreign investment, military doctrine, mining, land ownership) and defending armed struggle. [28] This has caused a serious setback for peace: experts estimate that up to 3,000 militants have taken up arms again, a figure corresponding to more than 40% of those who were initially demobilized. It includes new recruits. When the government and the main rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as the FARC, reached a peace agreement in September 2016, after years of negotiations, much of the world applauded. Juan Manuel Santos, then President of Colombia, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In November 2016, the guerrilla group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Colombian government signed a second revised peace agreement that ended more than five decades of violent conflict. And despite occasional setbacks, Colombia`s peace process appears to be on the right track. However, one high-ranking figure opposes the peace deal: Ivan Duque, the Democratic Center`s candidate in last Sunday`s presidential election. Critics claim that Duque is the puppet of former President Alvaro Uribe. Uribe had previously led the camp against the first peace agreement signed in August 2016 – which was later narrowly rejected in a referendum.
In addition, the amendment gives the President special powers to adopt legally binding decrees transposing the agreement for a period of six months. These decrees are also subject to automatic judicial review. I welcome the signing by the Colombian Government and the FARC of a comprehensive and definitive peace agreement that opens the door to the resolution of a conflict that, for more than 50 years, has been a hundred hundred thousand victims. In February 2002, the government halted peace negotiations with the FARC after a domestic robbery was abducted by guerrillas. A few days later, the rebels struck again and abducted presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt. Alvaro Uribe won the May elections and intensified military operations against the FARC, which ruled out any continuation of negotiations. He was re-elected in 2007. Betancourt was published in 2008. But people also say that adequate health services remain poor or non-existent. Overall, we find that the top priorities of our respondents are more and better health care, schools and public services in general. Other priorities that are not directly related to the peace agreement are reducing crime, unemployment and immigration – particularly in Arauca, where there has recently been a deluge of Venezuelan migrants. A few years after Bogota struck a deal with the FARC, challenges to the deal threaten to undermine it.
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