This Monday, the dialogue course of between the Colombian Authorities and the Second Marquetalia started in Caracas, a bloc of the defunct Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) that signed the 2016 Peace Settlement and deserted it in 2019.
The opening of the assembly within the Venezuelan capital was attended by Luciano Marín, often called ‘Iván Márquez’, commander of the ‘Second Marquetalia’, who made his first public look, after the Authorities of Iván Duque, in 2022, gave him for useless being attacked by the Colombian Military, in line with an announcement from the armed group.
This Monday it was confirmed that the Authorities’s negotiating staff is made up of the previous governor of Nariño Parmenio Cuéllar; the legal professionals María Camila Moreno and Gabriel Bustamante; Dr. Gloria Arias Nieto and retired colonel Jaime Joaquín Ariza. Businessman Tulio Gómez was appointed as help.
On the Second Marquetalia facet, the delegation is led by José Vicente Lesmes, alias ‘Walter Mendoza’.
In his inaugural speech at ‘Walter Mendoza’, he asserted that as a “new guerrilla group” he hopes to attain a peace settlement with none entrapment,” with the purpose that “what was agreed upon is absolutely fulfilled by the State as a complete.” .
He additionally stated that the organisation has “no intention” of coping with “an settlement that has already been signed and continues to be ready to be fulfilled.”
The important thing factors
In the beginning of the month, pictures circulated of a gathering held between ‘Iván Márquez’; the excessive commissioner for Peace, Otty Patiño; the pinnacle of the Authorities’s negotiating delegation, Armando Novoa and ‘Walter Mendoza’, the second answerable for that armed group.
After that assembly that came about within the Venezuelan capital, the negotiating groups signed a doc the place they outlined the broad strains of the method they’ll advance, particularly: de-escalation of the battle and readiness of the peace territories; building of peace territories; conception of victims as transformative social topics; generate the circumstances for peaceable coexistence and implementation and verification.
Each delegations established that their approaches shall be transversalized by 9 factors, amongst that are: the coincidence that “settlement agreed, settlement fulfilled”; a broad social mobilization to maneuver in direction of a Nice Nationwide Political Settlement; prioritize dialogue with businessmen, ranchers, retailers; shield the setting, the jungle, rivers and fauna, and encourage the hassle to cease local weather change.
Likewise, the Authorities considers optimistic the Second Marquetalia’s statements of rejecting withholdings for financial functions and that it’s going to undertake measures to strengthen the de-escalation of the battle, in areas the place the armed group operates.
The Second Marquetalia
Based on a report from the Institute of Growth and Peace Research (Indepaz), this armed bloc is made up of 11 substructures that function primarily within the southwest of the nation. Moreover, in line with a report from El Colombiano that cites that NGO, the Second Marquetalia at the moment has 1,751 members; 1,162 are in arms and one other 589 in help networks.
One of many pending points is the judicial remedy that shall be given to the Second Marquetalia. Those that by no means accepted the Peace Settlement are thought-about dissidents and may be accepted by the Transitional Justice, whereas the deserters who deserted what was signed in 2015 must fulfill their commitments earlier than the abnormal Justice as a result of they betrayed what they agreed to.
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2024-06-27 04:09:24