Colombia’s government and the rebel group know as FARC-EMC have signed a three-month cease-fire and formally began peace talks, as President Gustavo Petro tries to pacify rural areas of the country, ahead of elections that will take place at the end October.
Colombian High Commissioner for Peace Ivan Danilo Rueda, center, speaks during talks with members of the Central General Staff of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, during peace talks in Tibu, Colombia, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. The group is an an armed faction of the FARC that broke away and never signed the 2016 peace agreement with the government.
“Peace today seems to have been eclipsed when sirens, bombs, shouts of pain and desperation can be heard in places like the Middle East, Europe or sub-Saharan Africa” said Camilo González, the government’s lead negotiator. “These peace talks are a bet on life and freedom.” , the country’s largest remaining guerrilla group. But talks with the Gulf Clan, the nation’s second largest armed group, broke down earlier this year as the military cracked down on illegal mining in a region controlled by that organization.
Last year, on December 31, President Petro ordered his troops to stop attacks on the FARC-EMC. But that cease-fire broke down in May after the rebels killed three teenagers from an Indigenous community who had been forcibly recruited and were trying to escape from one of the group’s camps.
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