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The news is easy to read, but the consequences can be enormously complex: “The British Government pledged to promote in the United Nations Security Council a new initiative that will pressure President Iván Duque to accelerate the implementation of the peace process in Colombia ”, this newspaper reported Wednesday.
(In context: The United Kingdom will ask to accelerate implementation of the peace agreement)
Such a decision was set in the House of Lords of Parliament, in which a session was dedicated to evaluating the role of his country against Colombia and the Duque government.
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“In 2021 we will keep an eye on the peace process and human rights in Colombia, both priorities for the United Kingdom,” Baroness Christine Blower told EL TIEMPO.
The director of the British-Irish organization Justice for Colombia (Justice for Colombia, in Spanish), Hasan Dodwell, was categorical: “There is a high concern among representatives of all political colors about the alarming human rights situation in Colombia, the attacks on the peace process and the inability of the Duque government to sufficiently comply with its implementation “.
This is a wake-up call that coincides with the change of government in the United States, which will also have a drastic impact on this matter, as expected.
Donald Trump is leaving, who went so far as to affirm: “The previous administration negotiated the terrible Obama-Biden-Santos treaty with the Colombian drug cartels, they surrendered to the narco-terrorists and caused the production of illicit drugs to increase.”
And Joe Biden arrives, who in an exclusive interview with EL TIEMPO summarized what his foreign policy with the country will be:
“Throughout my decades of work to strengthen relations between the United States and Colombia, I have learned to admire the courage and optimism of the Colombian people and to understand the unlimited potential of a Colombia at peace “.
The democrat thus remains in the same ideology as four years ago, when the peace agreement was signed at the Teatro Colón: “This agreement will mark a new era in America,” he then wrote to President Juan Manuel Santos.
It is probable that Biden will draw attention to President Duque for not having continued promoting the peace process with the FARC
For Luis Eduardo Celis, an analyst who carefully monitors the social and armed conflict in the country and its negotiated solutions, it is almost mandatory for Duque to modify his narrative regarding the implementation of the agreements.
For him, external factors will be decisive. “Colombia is going to change the issues that require it due to the transformative action of Colombian society, the changes will not come from outside, but it will help the great international powers, notably the United States Government, among them, do not interfere with policies that have failed and that continue to be applied to the ground in Colombia “, ensures.
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A position that coincides with that of Alejandro Bohórquez-Keeney, international analyst and professor at the Javeriana University: “It is probable that Biden, in his eagerness to restore continuity to President Obama’s policies, in addition to maintaining the egalitarian discourse that helped him reaching the presidency, I called President Duque’s attention for not having continued promoting the peace process with the FARC. “
In the National Government, however, it is claimed that it has been faithful to its word to impose a peace, but with legality.
“We cannot continue to build solutions for peace that imply impunity
because that generates new forms of violence, “said President Iván Duque in the interview he gave to Roberto Pombo, director of EL TIEMPO.
However, in that talk, the head of state began by highlighting the benefits of a negotiation of which he had been especially critical: “This agreement, or the agreement between the Santos government and the FARC, was designed to be fulfilled in 15 years, initially. That means it is a process to cover four presidential administrations. “
“And I would say that there are different readings. I believe, and let me start with the positive things, that it is very positive to see a very significant number of people who have laid down their weapons and are in a process of transition to legality. we have had consistency in State policy “.
“The previous government started this process, I have already visited several ETCRs and have spoken with many of them, and my motivation is that this process ends successfully.”
“And why do I believe it? Why do I have that conviction? Because if the reincorporation process does not go well, the rest will hardly go well. The most important thing, what has to come out best of all, is the process of reincorporation “, argued Duque.
The most important thing, what has to come out best of all, is the reincorporation process
Like Emilio Archila, presidential advisor, who, also in an interview with EL TIEMPO, emphasized the positive aspects and that they exhibit a narrative that begins to show differences for public opinion:
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“Among the things that satisfy me the most is the political generosity that President Duque has had for us to do long-term planning. Let’s say, something that usually goes unnoticed, but what is most important, in my opinion, is that everyone They have tried to fix these issues throughout the ages, from ‘Sangrenegra’, through the National Front and by so many governments of the 20th and 21st centuries. But in four years it is not achieved. The agreements establish that this should be implemented for three presidential administrations followed and President Duque has had that political generosity and historical responsibility that we really do longer-term planning. “
Celis, however, says that what is important is not only the change of discourse but even more important: that the Government lends its hand to the drill to find the ticket that finances the policies required for peace to work and, above all, that from words to deeds:
“The government of President Iván Duque has always affirmed its commitment to the peace agreement, but that does not correspond to the facts: few resources for the Pdet, ignorance of what was agreed upon in the face of voluntary substitution, attacks on the JEP; what is required is a commitment to what has been agreed and not a simulation of compliance, the popular saying goes: ‘by their works you will know them’ “, affirms this scholar.
Now, and it is not a marginal fact, Duque will have to do a new pedagogy in front of his party, the Democratic Center, which brought him to power. It will be a daunting task if what has happened is taken into account, as Carlos Nasi, associate professor in the Department of Political Science of the Universidad de los Andes, noted in an article published in Public reason:
“For six years, the CD used a populist strategy plagued with lies. Its main spokespersons branded Santos a ‘Castro-Chavista traitor’ and divulged fallacies such as that the agreements’ handed over the country to the guerrillas’, ‘would turn Colombia into another Venezuela ‘,’ they humiliated the army by equating it with the terrorists’, ‘they imposed a gender ideology’ and, as if that were not enough, ‘they were sealed with a satanic rite’, to mention just some of the toxic messages that the CD released “.
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Given the proximity of the possession of Biden, the Colombian Government begins to send signals of adjustments in its new reality:
“I’m not worried about being asked questions about peace policies, because a lot has been done on that front. On the contrary, a Democratic administration will probably understand very well the complexities that this has, will appreciate the achievements and we will probably be able to work together to solve the difficulties “, The current ambassador Francisco Santos advanced with this newspaper.
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