The Central General Staff is the largest dissent currently active. It has been led by ‘Iván Mordisco’ since the death of Miguel Botache Santillana, aka ‘Gentil Duarte’ and has about 3,000 fighters who did not accept the final agreement signed in 2016.
Chief among the guerrillas inherited from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the Central staff (EMC), announced at a public event this Sunday that the peace negotiations with the government will start after this May 16.
This was announced in Casa Roja, in the department of Caquetá, at a major event attended by peasant, indigenous and Afro-descendant organizations in which the leaders of this dissent reaffirmed their desire for peace in Colombia after a week-long meeting in which points of view have been brought closer together and have defined a common line of action for the process they are ready to start with the Colombian state.
“We are announcing to the world that our delegates to the dialogue table with the Colombian state, led by the national government, are ready for May 16 this year,” said a spokeswoman for the armed group, transferring those present from which the EMC said. hopes to have “the immediate guidance and direct participation (of the people) as the true sovereign power for construction.”
For example, the group has confirmed that the mechanism of ceasefire verification will install 26 April as announced last week by the High Commissioner for Peace, Danilo Rueda.
The highest official of the guerrilla, Néstor Vera Fernandez, aka ‘Ivan Mordisco’, and with him was Martín Pérez Castro, ‘Richard’, head of the 33rd Front; Alexander Díaz Mendoza, aka “Calarcá Córdoba,” and Ebimilec Eregua Torres, aka “Alonso 45,” all veterans of the former Eastern Bloc of the FARC. Also present were Óscar Eduardo Sandoval, ‘El Mocho’, head of the Cauca dissidents; Antonio Medina ‘Erika’, of the 10th Front of Arauca. Many of them bear the decals of the old FARC and it has been possible to see flags, bracelets and insignia on the guerrilla buttons.
At present, the government has not commented on the issue, but the guerrillas have raised the possibility of negotiations taking place in Oslo.
He Central Staff is the biggest dissent of those currently active. It is led by ‘Iván Mordisco’ since the death of Miguel Botache Santillana, aka ‘Gentil Duarte’ and has about 3,000 fighters who did not accept the final agreement signed in 2016.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced the opening of a “second peace process” with the dissent of the FARC’s Central General Staff. These negotiations add to those currently underway with the country’s other major guerrilla, the National Liberation Army (ELN).
Source: EITB
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