The Authorities of Colombia installs right this moment, Monday in Caracas, the dialogue desk with the Second Marquetalia, a dissident group Farc made up of former guerrillas who deserted the 2016 peace settlement and who now need to negotiate an answer to the battle that convinces them.
This group, led by Luciano Marín Arango, alias ‘Iván Márquez’, who was a FARC negotiator for the 2016 settlement, will as soon as once more sit on the negotiating desk in talks that come following the entire peace legislation was authorised to permit renegotiation with those that left the settlement.
Second Marquetalia in Colombia
The Second Marquetalia, which takes its identify from the place the place the FARC was born in 1964, was created in 2019 when Márquez and one other of the negotiators of the settlement, ‘Jesús Santrich’ (who died in 2021 in a crossfire in Venezuela) returned to the secrecy.
It’s the group to which the Authorities has given the smallest political standing and it’s estimated that they’ve between 1,800 and a couple of,000 males, of which solely between 1,200 and 1,300 are guerrillas, the remainder are collaborators.
They haven’t any intention of immediately attacking the State, like different teams, and their goal is territorial management for which they’ve an open battle, in accordance with the Worldwide Committee of the Pink Cross, with the opposite dissident of the FARC, the Central Normal Employees ( EMC).
The leaders of the Second Marquetalia, with deep political backgrounds, have been joined by an amalgam of individuals with extra assorted pursuits, such because the Border Instructions, which function on the border with Ecuador, and whose solely curiosity is within the illicit economies of that porous area.
In any case, it’s the group with the least territorial presence, which is restricted to the departments of Nariño and Putumayo, though it’s current in additional than 60 municipalities within the nation.
Each delegations should outline on this first cycle of negotiations in Caracas the problems that might be addressed throughout the dialogues, though in earlier conferences within the Venezuelan capital they already agreed that “this peace course of will advocate for democratic adjustments and reforms for the good thing regarding the inhabitants, ranging from the development of peace with political options wherein the precedence is the territories.
The complexity comes from the potential disagreements of each events and above all from the mutual mistrust: from the Authorities as a result of it’s negotiating with those that already signed a peace that they later didn’t settle for and from the Second Marquetalia as a result of though they agree with a left-wing Authorities with which they’ve affinities, they might doubt their capability for motion.
On the a part of the Authorities, the dialogues might be led by the previous Justice of the Peace of the Nationwide Electoral Council Armando Novoa, who participated within the 1991 Constituent Meeting.
Within the staff there are very various voices starting from the businessman and president of the América de Cali soccer membership, Tulio Gómez, to Parmenio Cuéllar, a former liberal governor of the division of Nariño, to Colonel Jaime Ariza, a former anti-Petrista intelligence soldier.
On the a part of the guerrilla, it is not going to be Márquez who will negotiate this time however ‘Walter Mendoza’, a historic chief of the FARC who participated within the creation of the cellular columns of that guerrilla.
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2024-06-25 23:27:26