The president from Colombia, Gustavo Petro, recognized that in Venezuela there is a presence of members of the National Liberation Army (ELN).
In an interview with Caracol, Petro explained that this was the reason why he raised the option that the government of Nicolás Maduro would be the guarantor of an eventual negotiation, he reviewed. Time.
He recalled that in the peace process initiated by then President Santos, Venezuela was a guarantor country, as well as Norway and Cuba, which remain.
He revealed that there are other countries that have requested to mediate. During their state visits to Colombia, the presidents of Chile, Gabriel Boric, and of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez, publicly stated that they wanted to accompany an eventual dialogue with that guerrilla.
“Venezuela, in my opinion, was key in the Santos government for the disarmament of the FARC and might be key in a successful process with the ELN,” he said.
In the same interview, the leftist leader made a strong comment once morest former president Iván Duque. “The dissidences were built by Duque, with all the respect he deserves. The policy of destroying the peace process built dissidence. The goal was to rebuild the FARC so that the discourse of war would continue to exist,” he assured.
He referred to the case of Santrich, who abandoned the peace process and returned to arms, and insisted that what happened was an “entrapment.” He even stated: “It is shown that there was a kind of trap to ask for their extradition in the United States, made by an attorney general of the nation. A trap. The cocaine from the entrapment was bought with money from the DEA, delivered by people from the DEA and received by them. It turned out to be a trap that has been confessed today by members of the DEA in the United States justice system.”
He pointed out that the above was exposed by him while he was a parliamentarian. “This is regarding putting an end to the violence. The FARC go down in history as a guerrilla movement. We are not going to continue with a war that can be stopped.”