Minister Gustavo Petro He managed to take a humble but also auspicious step towards the Colombians. policy of “full peace” in a devastated country violence. Your government has agreed to restart from the first week of November. National Liberation Army (ELN), talks with guerrilla It is of Guevarist origin, which was founded in the mid-1960s inspired by Castroism and is still in operation.
“A way has been opened,” said Antonio García, the commander of this rebel group. Colombia’s new left government Special attention to getting the ELN to lay down their arms Headed by Juan Manuel Santos from 2016, as did the FARC. Not just because it will fulfill part of an ambitious program launched on June 19, when he won the election. The effects of a peace treaty go beyond the borders of Colombian territory and also rebuild relationships faster Venezuelan. It is no coincidence that Colombian Foreign Minister Álvaro Leyva met with President Nicolás Maduro at the Miraflores Palace, after the announcement of the return to negotiations in Caracas.
“The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela expresses its firmest commitment to the overall peace process in Colombia and congratulates the agreement to restart negotiations as a guarantor country in the dialogues between the National Liberation Army (ELN) and the Colombian government,” Leyva said. . A nice gesture to a neighbor with whom there was not the slightest dialogue during the administration of Iván Duque, who is committed to Donald Trump’s plan to remove Maduro from power. The meeting between the foreign minister and the Venezuelan executive authority takes place a week after the reopening of the common border. Miraflores Palace will add a lot to this new peace process due to its relations with Turkey. a guerrilla crossing from one country to another in many cases With the approval of the Venezuelan military.
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Petro is currently trying to achieve a positive outcome in a process where two failures have accumulated: the Santos Government and the Duke himself, who froze rapprochement in 2019. The meeting in Caracas this Tuesday was fraught with unusual formality. There was also the Colombian peace commissioner, along with members of the Guerrilla and the Government; Paulo Beltrán, left-wing senator Iván Cepeda, and Bishop Héctor Fabio Henao on behalf of the Colombian Episcopal Conference. At the same table sat the host country, one of the guarantors of the process, together with Norway and Cuba, which welcomed the resumption of negotiations from Havana. A verification task UN will accompany the complex transition towards agreement.
According to the Bogota newspaper ‘El Espectador’, the new attempt at dialogue comes “at a time when the situation of each actor is very different” from the frustrated approaches of previous years. “On the state side, the change is very clear. Colombia has never had a left-wing government before, and this points to a completely different panorama in terms of negotiations.” The ELN itself did not ignore this development. “The new political conditions allowed the negotiations to resume. There is a change in peace policy and the deals we reach are likely to open up new opportunities,” García said.