Biden plans to remove the FARC from the list of foreign terrorist groups
The administration of Joe Biden has decided to withdraw the extinct Colombian guerrillas from the FARC (Colombia Revolutionary Armed Forces) from the list of foreign terrorist groups, as the Wall Street Journal advanced citing legislative sources, to a measure with which it intends to give aBack to the peace agreement between the armed group and the government of José Manuel Santos, which this Wednesday is five years old.The historic pact, after 52 years of conflict, went ahead with little popular support (it was rejected in the plebiscite) and has been developed with difficulties.
The end of the designation as a terrorist group is more than a declaration of intentions, it has practical effects such as that allows the US government to finance programs in which the former guerrillas participate.Group's leaders had already requested this exclusion from the moment of the Peace Signature, but for the administration of Barack Obama it was premature and for Donald Trump's such a decision, he had no signs to prosper: the Republican had shown his support for supportÁlvaro Uribe, roof of the agreement and the government of Santos.
The news, confirmed by sources from the State Department and Congress to Reuters, can encourage republican criticism to the Democratic president, who has maintained Trump's hard line policy in matters such as Venezuela and Cuba but, still, he receives accusations of sympathizingWith socialist regimes.
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The increase in violence has questioned the implementation of the Peace Agreement signed in 2016.According to the latest report by the Kroc Institute, in charge of evaluating the start -up of that framework, at the end of 2020 only 28% of the 578 points of the agreement had crystallized.The guerrillas did demobilize, delivered the weapons and became a political party, which supports the decision of the administration of Joe Biden, and institutions such as the Special Jurisdiction of Peace (JEP), a mechanism that judges the crimes of the conflict, but groups of guerrillas dissidents and the National Liberation Army, (ELN) have won land in recent years and suppose a new security challenge.
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