Two years of the signing of the peace agreement | Colombia

"During the first hundred days of my government, there were 104 acts of violence perpetrated by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the FARC, and at the same time by the Duque government, only one," said the government. former president Juan Manuel Santos. the first two years of the signing of peace agreements.

And although the Peace Agreement contains six points, some have not even begun to be implemented in those two years.

Experts consulted by Liberal vanguard They stressed that the Agreement marked a milestone in the history of Colombia and, even if it included some good things, it is also possible to talk about things to be done.

End of the war

"The basic fact is that Colombia ended a cycle of armed clashes that lasted more than 60 years and marks a historic break with the peace agreements, and with what happened these the last two years, such as the abandonment of Farc weapons and the post-conflict transition, so this is the first context we must not forget, as we have experienced a wars situation. , of internal armed conflicts and a permanent state of exception, even in spite of the 1991 Constitution, we have followed situations of exception and martial state and local dictatorships in very important areas of the Colombian territory ", explained Camilo Posso González, president of the Institute of Studies for Development and Peace, Indepaz.

In the same vein, Alexander Arciniegas, a political badyst, believes that "it is an opportunity to emphasize that the country's biggest challenge is still to build peace." , this type of process has not been easy anywhere in the world and in the case of Colombia, there are few problems: the society still does not perceive the importance of reconciliation; lack of security guarantees for ex-combatants in the territories and delays in their socio-economic reincorporation into land access and productive projects, and the rearmament of groups that belonged to the disappeared and criminalized guerrillas . "

The issue of drug trafficking

In several areas of the country, violence continues to occur, particularly in drug trafficking, as in the region of El Catatumbo, and constitutionalist Juan Manuel Charry believes that "drug trafficking does not occur. is not a legal issue but an operation and that its policy is to support peasant families to move from coca to other crops has generated a perverse incentive and an increase in the number of hectares of cultivated land; to say that this part of the agreement was a failure.

Arciniegas, however, believes that "the return of fumigations and the repressive drug policies of Washington, which with Trump have made peace for Peace, and the position of the Duke government, which despite his speech and accepted for example that the Agreement respects the Rome Statute, in practice it appears to be uninterested in promoting its central themes, including: political participation, rural development and substitution of illicit crops ".

Positive and negative

Finally, the political scientist Andrés Mejía considers that "the panoramic balance after two years of the signing of the agreement is good.I think the demobilization of the guerrillas became effective in a percentage that was not absolute, but the threat existential for the state that sought to overthrow the constitutional regime no longer existed and the commitment to the political shift of most of the Farc is satisfactory and the violence has greatly diminished in many of its manifestations in many parts of the country. . "

Regarding the negative, Mejía said that "the dissent was more substantial than expected, making the presence in several areas of the country seemingly dedicated to drug trafficking, and some leaders of the Farc and their commitment vis-à-vis agreements is unclear, as in the case of "Santrich", "Márquez" and alias "El Paisa"; In addition, there are still many difficulties on the ground, such as the satisfaction of the guerrillas in many compromises . "

Other implementations

The Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-Repetition in Colombia begins this week's work to prepare a report on the armed conflict to be presented in three years.

Commission President Francisco de Roux recalled that this instrument was created as part of the peace agreement.

The Commission is made up of 11 members and is part of the Integrated Truth, Justice, Reparation and Non-Repetition System, which also includes the Missing Persons Unit and the Special Court for Peace, JEP.

Regarding the functioning of the same thing, the priest announced that his three pillars are concentrated in three points: "listen, recognize and understand", because, in the opinion of the commission studies today. Colombia has more than eight million victims of violence in different parts of the country.

Regarding the territories where the commission will be, the father announced that he would be present in places where most of the armed conflict was recorded. In this sense, they felt that they should be divided by regions.