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October 13th, 2017 
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nsnbc : The next three governments are legally bound to executing the peace agreements between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (FARC-EP now FARC) and the State, ruled Colombia’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday.
The Constitutional Court’s ruling provides a legal guarantee for the peace agreement signed by the FARC-EP and the administration of President Juan Manuel Santos in December 2016.
Santos and the FARC-EP started unofficial explorative peace talks in 2011 and started official peace talks in 2012. The peace agreement ended 52 years of armed conflict between the State and the FARC-EP.
The Court’s ruling bars the next three governments from amending the peace agreement once Congress has passed all of its elements.
The peace process is currently opposed by a conservative minority in Congress consisting of the right-wing Democratic Center and the center-right Radical Change.
It’s worth noting that these two parties are among the parties that have suffered the most by criminal investigations into ties between Colombia’s ruling class and paramilitary death squads.
The Democratic Center and ex-president Alvaro Uribe had vowed to “shred that fucking deal to pieces” if winning the presidential elections. This has been made legally impossible by the court.
That said, there are other than political ways to “shred that fucking deal to pieces” – one of them would be by renewed campaigns of right-wing paramilitaries targeting former FARC guerrilla as well as leftist political and grassroots leaders and activists to derail the peace process and to lead to renewed and open conflict.
A/N -nsnbc 13.10.2017
Source Article from https://nsnbc.me/2017/10/13/86638/
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