It was inevitable. The United States’ gaze on peace agreement with the coming to power of the Democrat Joe Biden it is diametrically opposed to that of Republican Donald Trump. And that had to have consequences on the daily agenda of domestic politics.
This is well known to the current protagonists of its implementation in Colombia, President Iván Duc and Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri, head of Commons, the political party that emerged from the old Farc.
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This explains the recent call by the head of state, Thursday, during the General Assembly of Affiliates of the American Business Council at Casa de Nariño. The event was attended by the US Ambassador, Philip Goldberg, virtually.
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These messages help to avoid the distortions of the ‘lobbies’ often of some who always want to sow doubtful contempt without support
There, Duc asked companies operating in the country to tell the U.S. Congress “the truth impartially and without distortion” of what its government is doing for the implementation of the peace agreement.
“But how important it is for the same American companies in Colombia to be able to transmit the messages, also to the United States Congress, in a clear and impartial way about the scope that our country has had in the policy of Future Route and peace policy with Legality.These messages help to avoid misrepresentations of the lobbies many times of some who always want to sow doubtful contempt without support, ”Duque said.
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President Iván Duc
The first president gave as an example the progress in this matter, giving the figure of more than a thousand PDET works and the fight against drug trafficking and that the indicators in terms of security have improved.
Without mentioning it, Duc thus responded to Tymoshenko’s letter, As he was known to the FARC in Londoño, at the US Congress on Tuesday this week.
In the letter, Londoño Echeverri expressed his disagreement with US lawmakers with the National Government over the “laziness to bring state civilian institutions to conflict zones” and “their disturbing inaction to prevent and prosecute.” attacks on peace signatories and human rights defenders. “
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According to Londoño, every day that passes without deploying institutional efforts to implement, in a comprehensive manner, the signed peace agreement, “pushes Colombia irreversibly more towards the violence of armed groups, the increase of crops of ‘illicit use, poverty and inequality, and takes us away from building lasting peace in our country and region.’
Rodrigo Londoño, known as Timochenko, leader of the Common Party.
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But why are the eyes now on Washington? It is natural. With the arrival of Biden the demands have been evident.
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In fact, in February and through a trill, the U.S. embassy in Colombia he noted that of the main points of President Biden’s policy the first would be the implementation of the peace agreement and also human rights.
The message reminded former President Juan Manuel Santos, the architect of the peace process with the FARC, who noted that Joe Biden (as vice president of Barack Obama) was a great promoter of the agreement and also supported the process permanently.
We envision a secure future, throughout the Western Hemisphere; there is no better place to start than with the determination of the Colombian people
Even in 2018, during the Americas Concord Summit in Bogota, Biden urged President Iván Duc not to give up the peace process with the FARC and praised the country’s determination to make progress.
“We envision a secure future, throughout the Western Hemisphere; there is no better place to start than with the determination of the Colombian people to establish a sustainable and lasting peace, “Biden said at the time, adding that” the peace agreement was a great step forward and has not of being something minimized or ignored “.
Then came a cross-letter between Tymoshenko and Saints in which both complained about implementation shortcomings.
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“Today, for many of us, the peace deal is more like death than life,” the ex-guerrilla told him. “President Duc cannot give us his hand, that is a fact. Perhaps his own hands are bound by the influences of extreme partisan agendas, or his hands are paralyzed in the face of so many other hands secretly promoting war and they miss the dreaded past, ”he added.
Duke responded to this appointment with a dinner, at the request of the UN, With the former commander of the FARC in which, they said, they were treated “frankly” and “respectfully” what is missing in the progress of the implementation of the signing between the state and the insurgency , but also advances.
Emilio José Archila, presidential adviser for Stabilization and Consolidation, told EL TEMPS that the successes are undeniable:
“Here are the figures. I give just one example: we received 100,000 families with the promise that they would support them to get out of the cake. But there were no contracts for assistance or production projects, no funding or suppliers. The program is worth more than 3 trillion pesos and in that time less than 500,000 pesos were planned. We have invested more than 1 trillion pesos and so we managed to get these 100,000 families out of the cake. “
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Archila’s statements were made while the echo of two letters gravitated in the atmosphere: 1 with a claim by Human Rights Watch (HRW), which it considers “insufficient” efforts to stop the assassination of social leaders, and another by the US State Department. UU., In which he demands to clarify these crimes because it is one of the “top priorities” for Joe Biden.
The two letters were written in Washington, where the parties now know that the implementation of the agreements in Colombian territory depends largely on the decisions taken there.
And finally, there is a fact that in diplomacy is not marginal. President Duc has failed to have a direct conversation with his American counterpart.
So far, the most notorious has been a phone conversation between National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan with Defense Minister Diego Molano and Chief of Staff Maria Paula Correa.
In it, Sullivan asked about the implementation of the 2016 peace agreement and reiterated the importance of defending human rights. In conclusion, for EE. UU. These two issues are central to the new relationship with the arrival of Biden.
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