Colombian President Gustavo Petro issued a stern warning to the main dissident faction of the former FARC on Wednesday: negotiate for peace in the country or face the fate of drug lord Pablo Escobar. At the same time, fighting broke out between Colombian army forces and EMC elements in the southwestern part of the country, the armed forces announced via X (the former Twitter) in the evening. The Petro government and the specific dissident faction, the Central General Staff (Estado Mayor Central, EMC), whose members after rejecting the historic 2016 peace agreement between the then government and the former rebel organization Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) took up arms again, have been negotiating since late 2023. But after the killing of an indigenous tribal leader, the president suspended a mutual ceasefire in three of the Latin American country's provinces and hardened the tone against EMC dissidents. , with which the talks anyway […]
Source: News Beast
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