Andrés Pastrana called the Peace Agreement with the Farc a “monster of injustice”

The former president of Colombia Andrés Pastrana did not skimp on adjectives to criticize the Peace Agreement with the Farc together with the Special Jurisdiction for Peace -JEP-. The statements of the former head of State were given at the 2020 Conservative Party convention that took place this Saturday, November 21.

The agreement signed by the government of Juan Manuel Santos with the FARC guerrillas, he called it a “Monster of injustice engendered in Havana, which has found the right ground to lay its roots”.

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In the virtual event, the politician also threw darts at the JEP. “The so-called Special Justice for Peace is a spurious body that does not respect the branches of public power, above all because the powerful executive is paralyzed by its excesses. The most elementary rule of the pseudo court should have been the expulsion of those who did not meet the requirements of elementary truth, justice and reparation “, he pointed.

But the criticisms were not limited to the peace process, Pastrana also pointed to his political party as being an accomplice in the dismantling of Plan Colombia that was managed during his mandate, between 1998 and 2002.

The complicity of the Conservative Party in the dismantling of Plan Colombia and the consequent legalization by omission of drug trafficking, are a historical shame and a challenge to the decent country that shed so much blood facing the challenge of a corrupting crime, which came to buy a president of Colombia .

Iván Duque’s message to the conservative community

“These transformations have been achieved with you and we want to continue materializing them”, President Iván Duque said this Saturday in recognition of the Conservative Party for its contribution to the achievements of his Government.

“I am proud that I have had the support of the Conservative Party in the aspiration to reach the Presidency of the Republic, and also in the exercise of the Presidency of the Republic”added the president when he intervened in the National Convention of this community, which was held at the Hotel Tequendama in Bogotá.

“For this reason, when we look at what the campaign promises were, what were the speeches we made when we assumed the Presidency of the Republic, and where we are today, we can realize important achievements”, stressed the head of state.

Regarding legality, Duque highlighted that In 2019, one of the lowest homicide rates in the last 44 years was achieved And, it aims to close this year with the lowest homicide rate in more than four decades.

Regarding the construction of Peace with Legality, the President recalled that at the beginning of his Government there were two Development Plans with a Territorial Approach (PDET) and today there are 16. In the coming weeks, the 900th work of the PDET projects will be inaugurated.

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In addition, he stressed that the transition has been facilitated for those who have laid down arms in search of legality, and the country has been told that true peace-building entails truth, justice, reparation and non-repetition.

“When we speak of legality, we cannot ignore that the victims unequivocally demand that there be true justice, with exemplary sanctions; that there be reparation with the goods of the perpetrators; that there is a procedural, legal, real truth that is supported and that non-repetition is guaranteed “, he specified.