The peace processes that the Petro Government has open with criminal groups are not on the right track and the leaders themselves have been making statements against the political negotiations and the president himself.
Although last weekend the peace delegations of the Government and the Central General Staff announced progress to install the inter-institutional commission to build a territorial transformation plan in Meta, apparently, this negotiation is quite tangled and would have little future, according to the members of the dissidents themselves.
Alexander Díaz Mendoza, alias Calarcá, gave an interview to Blu Radio in which he made it clear that Petro’s total peace is not on the right track and said that under the president’s administration the conflict in the country will not be resolved. Furthermore, he revealed that the EMC will not hand over the weapons and that at the time they told the former Peace Commissioner, Danilo Rueda.
“We have obtained the weapons with the people and those weapons do not have to be compromised in any agreement. As a civilian I am already doing the job that corresponds to me, we can continue doing it for many years and waiting for the little that we have agreed to be fulfilled. Furthermore, I conclude: we presented an agenda and the agenda does not include anything or any point that talks about the delivery of weapons. Our ideals are that no, there can be no delivery of weapons. Why is there going to be a delivery of weapons without first solving the problems that led us to use them? When these problems are solved, I believe that we have already died, while we are alive, those of us who are there will not. This problem is not going to be solved now in five, ten, twenty years. There may be progress, but not the solution,” the guerrilla commander told that station.
Calarcá launched harsh criticism against the Havana Peace Agreement and pointed out that it did not provide a solution to the conflicts in the territories that, precisely, have given rise to those who are taking up arms. “Peace is achieved when there is the opinion of all the people, when there is participation, that is the reason for being of the FARC.” and that is why we are up in arms for that town. We cannot feel like the bosses of that people because that is how they took it in the Havana agreements. The leaders at that time believed they were the bosses of that town, as if the people were there, the workers and the workers and they were the bosses, so they did not link them,” he reiterated.
Furthermore, the guerrilla commander indicated that they are not contemplating submitting to any peace court and that this is another matter that they have already communicated to President Petro’s government.
“Until now we haven’t thought about that. We do not want to think that if we continue up in arms it is because we did not agree with the process that existed and if we did not agree with that process, much less submit to the JEP or that closure court. For me it is undignified that they make me pay a sentence for being a revolutionary, if it is a right. Rebellion is a people’s right. If we are talking about peace with social justice, then it starts there, we have not done injustice, we have done justice. If we execute a paramilitary, a person contrary to the manners that a citizen as such should have is doing justice, because in Colombia that no longer exists. “Let them come and say that applying justice means taking us to court and condemning us for the fact that we were guerrillas, because that’s where the story of peace begins to break,” he said on Blu Radio.
In that sense, he sent a message to President Petro because he believes that he will not be able to consolidate the so-called total peace. “It is not easy for the president to achieve it, because this country is cultured in war. The leaders themselves have made the people think like this. And this is already a culture, practically so when it is said that the president is going to make total peace, well, not right now, he will suddenly make some bases.”
Likewise, the guerrilla commander indicated that the talks are going at a fairly slow pace and that in the fifth cycle they hope there will be a unification of the agenda to work based on it because, for now, each delegation has a different one.
Finally, he said that Iván Mordisco is not the owner of the EMC and that they are a “political project that fights for changes” and that they will continue on that path without the presence of the guerrilla leader.
“I don’t consider it necessary to give a number of the combatants that are at the table, the population that is in the territories where we are knows that this is not the case.”. It is unnecessary to give an explanation and it would be to give importance to the delirium that the comrades who are there have, it is a delirium and it is like a problem of insecurity that they are showing and it is an even ideological problem I would say because the FARC has no owner, The owner of the FARC is not Comrade Iván, the FARC is a political project that is made up of a number of people fighting for changes. “The FARC is not a farm that someone bought and does whatever they want and I only tell you that we are not 5%,” Calarca explained.
For now, no one from the Petro Government has responded to Calarcá’s statements that show that the negotiation is quite tangled.
