The governor described it as a “sensible” decision. Nariño
Luis Alfonso Escobar, the fact that the southern community front of the ELN guerrilla broke relations with the central command and the national leadership of that guerrilla.
The sectional leader He also assured that this fact allows the national and departmental governments to continue with the transformation of the territory through dialogues. regional peace.
Escobar told Blu Radio that All armed actors must seek a political solution in Colombia to end the conflict, because the logic of war is no longer the moment for this country.
“The armed conflict in Colombia lost its direction and its ideological orientations to take power and now it responds and obeys the reasons that are linked to illegal economies,” said the governor.
“If that direction has been lost, I think that the true members of the guerrillas must take a step aside as like this guerrilla from the southern community front who has understood that it is time to make peace in the department,” Escobar added.
The mandatary He insisted that it is the communities that are crying out for a true relationship between the national government, the department and the municipalities, to achieve the transformations that Nariño so needs.
“What follows now is for all armed rebel groups to understand that society expects that there be the minimum humanitarian gestures to avoid more deaths of innocent people in areas where there is military influence,” he said. the governor.
As he explained, “those humanitarian minimums that the community is expecting are not to kidnap, not to recruit minors, not to recruit women,” acts that, he said, make “society trust again, but if the opposite is done, it is impossible for the people of Nariño and Colombians to trust the announcements of total peace that the rebel groups are making.”
He stated that it is time for the groups to say if they are betting on war or peace and He asked the members of the Second Marquetalia Dissidents and the General Staff to join the territorial peace talks.
Regarding humanitarian demining, The politician stated that it will be launched in four municipalities and also asserted that “this is going in the right direction.”
