Colombia's government has agreed to a six-month ceasefire with the five largest armed groups operating in the country, President Gustavo Petro announced on New Year's Eve.
Colombian senator Ivan Cepeda speaks during an interview with AFP at his apartment in Bogota, on December 16, 2022. – Colombia President Gustavo Petro, a former urban guerrilla and the country’s first ever left-wing president, has vowed to negotiate with armed groups, including left-wing rebels and drug traffickers, in a bid to achieve “total peace” in the country following six decades of armed conflict.
The armed groups still operating in Colombia, the world’s largest cocaine producer, are locked in deadly disputes over drug trafficking revenues and other illegal businesses, according to the Institute for Development and Peace Studies , an independent think tank. The Segunda Marquetalia and Estado Mayor Central groups — splinter factions of FARC which broke from the 2016 peace pact — have held separate talks with the government.
Some dissidents refused to lay down their arms alongside their FARC comrades six years ago, when the fearsome rebel army signed the deal with Bogota to end more than five decades of conflict.
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