This will serve as a legal framework to negotiate or demobilize armed groups such as the National Liberation Army or the FARC dissidents.
The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, has signed this Friday the so-called ‘total peace’ law that allows the Colombian government to dialogue with armed groupsall this one day after Congress approved it definitively in both chambers.
In this way, the regulation has been renewed that allows to build negotiations with those who are “outside the law”, and that It will serve as a legal framework to negotiate or demobilize armed groups such as the National Liberation Army (ELN) or the dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)..
“There will be people who will negotiate with the government the options to end an insurgent war for many decades, which must end definitively without echoes so that Colombian society is the true owner of the country (…) the real and peaceful democracy we need. So the Law is signed, “Petro has asserted in an act in which he has signed the measure, according to a statement from the Presidency.
In addition, the Colombian president has stressed that through the application of this norm “there will be people who will negotiate with the justice system the possibility of a peaceful dismantling of crime.”
The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, proposed during his election campaign for the Presidency implement a “total peace” that promotes the start of peace talks with armed and political organizations and ends “the bloodbath” to which the country would have submitted for more than 50 years, has collected ‘El Tiempo’.