Carlos Erazo from Tulu, with military hierarchy over Petro in the M-19, landed from Norway to support Otty Patiño in the dialogue with the Communeros of the South
The spoke in the wheel for the advancement of the negotiations of the ELN guerrilla with the government of Gustavo Petro, the ones that had advanced the most of those that have been opened to achieve total peace, is the Frente Comuneros del Sur that operates in Nariño .
The chief negotiator and second in command of the organization, Pablo Beltrán, expressed in an interview with El País de España his discomfort with Commissioner Otty Patiño for maintaining a separate dialogue with this group that, according to him, is contaminated by practices unacceptable to them. and that is why they are subject to internal disciplinary processes. Beltrán believes that addressing them outside the national table only contributes to dismantling the dialogue and cracking the guerrilla organization.
The government does not accept excluding the Southern Community Front from dialogue and on the contrary has supported the initiative of the Governor of Nariño, Luis Alfonso Escobar with that group when he promoted regional dialogues to move towards total peace.
The weight of this proposal even made the Peace Commissioner, who replaced Danilo Rueda in office, the one who held the threads of the negotiation at the start of the Petro government, designate a person to formally interlocute with them.
The chosen one was Carlos Erazo, a veteran M-19 guerrilla who had military command in the mountains of Tolima and the Valley, where he interacted with Commander Carlos Pizarro and coincided with Petro’s years in arms. He is so trusted by the Peace Commissioner and the President since his times of guerrilla militancy that he was brought from Norway, where he was in exile.
Born in Tuluá, he was also one of the first to join Carlos Pizarro’s commitment to peace. In that Department he led the M-19 Democratic Alliance Party created after demobilization and only left it when he received threats that forced him to go into exile. Norway, the cold Scandinavian country, was his destination and he stayed there for 24 years and only his two old companions were able to convince him to return.
Carlos Erazo’s challenge is to handle a dialogue with tweezers so that the most advanced negotiation of all is not broken, whose negotiators only ask that the agreements reached in Mexico be respected. The obstacle seems to have been overcome in the meeting of the government and guerrilla leaders in Venezuela and Erazo will be the key man to help ensure that the fabric does not break.
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