Colombian President Gustavo Petro has signed this Friday the so-called ‘total peace’ law that allows the Colombian government to dialogue with armed groups, a day after Congress approved it definitively in both chambers.
In this way, the regulation that allows negotiations with those who are «outside the law» has been renewed, and will serve as a legal framework to negotiate or demobilize armed groups such as the National Liberation Army (ELN) or the dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
«There will be people who will negotiate with the Government the options to end an insurgent war for many decades, which must end definitively without echoes for the Colombian society to be the true owner of the country (…) the real and peaceful democracy we need. So the Law is signed», Petro said in an act in which he signed the measure, according to a press release from the Presidency.
In addition, the Colombian president stressed that through the application of this law «there will be people who will negotiate with justice the possibility of a peaceful dismantling of crime».
The Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, proposed during his presidential election campaign to implement a ‘total peace’ that would promote the beginning of peace dialogues with armed and political organizations and end «the bloodbath» to which the country has been subjected for more than 50 years, as reported by ‘El Tiempo’.
