Gustavo Petro and his call for “total peace”: “This story is over where the state betrays and kills those who accept peace”

President Gustavo Petro CampeSENA inaugurated on Tuesday, February 21, in the municipality of Mosquera, Cundinamarca, an initiative in which the country’s peasants will have access to the educational offer of the National Learning Service (Sena), without the need to be bachelor and starting studies technicians.

During his speech, the Head of State referred to one of his main policies: the ‘full peace’, and invited armed groups to join it so that the Colombian communities most affected by the armed conflict can “live in peace”. Furthermore, he assured that during his mandate those who sign the peace processes will not be betrayed, assuring that those who sign the agreements will not be killed.

“This story is over where the state betrays and kills those who agree to make peace with it. A state that complies is a trustworthy and safe state,” said Petro from the municipality of Cundinamarca.

For the Colombian President, we must respect the Peace agreement signed during the government of Juan Manuel Santos with the extinct Farc guerrillas. “We have to respect the first point of the peace agreement, because that’s how we can tell the other armed groups that are there that we respect, that the state respects,” Petro said in his speech.

However, he pointed out that joining the ‘full peace It must be a commitment of all the illegal armed groups present in the 32 departments of Colombia.

“Here, it seems to me that there is an obviously interesting and partial effort. Because the problem is global. If you move, but the other doesn’t, you end up limping,” President Petro insisted.

The Minister of the Interior, Alfonso Prada, for his part assured that the commitment of the national government, as a state policy, “is to respect the peace agreements of the Teatro Colón with the Farc, but also to promise to speak and to comply with the demobilization of all sources that generate death and blood in Colombia. This is the government of change and the only way to make a government of change is with total peace, which seeks to achieve social justice”.

Precisely, the national government seeks to open spaces for dialogue with the FARC guerrillas who did not adhere to the Havana process. In an interview with the agency ReutersDanilo Rueda, High Commissioner for Peace, said: “We believe that in the weeks to come, this initial phase of rapprochement and building of levels of trust will lead us to a second phase, which is the beginning of the phase of dialogue.

During his interview with the international agency, Rueda assured that for a few months he had been in contact with a splinter group to see if they are interested in seeking peace. According to the senior official, the group led by Iván Márquez has expressed its desire to be part of one of the main pillars of the government: the ‘full peace’.

In this regard, Rueda said he held two meetings with the leader of the insurgents:

“Iván Márquez is alive, he has all his mental faculties in good use and yes, there have been two meetings with him and there have been clear, precise and specific statements that his entire organization wants to participate in all these scenarios of talks peace in Colombia”.

These statements were released after Farc dissidents ambushed an army patrol in Huila, where one soldier was killed and another wounded, according to the ninth brigade, attached to the army’s fifth division.