A faction of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) announced on Wednesday that it will not disarm and demobilize despite the recent deal the guerilla group’s leaders and the Colombian government signed agreeing to a bilateral and indefinite ceasefire.
Santos has responded swiftly and firmly to the First Front’s message, warning them that he will order the Colombian army to pursue them if they fail to disarm.
The statement was the unit’s first public pronouncement against a peace process that seeks to put an end to more than five decades of armed conflict in the country.
The announcement comes two weeks after Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and FARC leader Rodrigo Londono Echeverri, known as Timochenko, agreed to the ceasefire after three years of negotiations.
The rebels say the deal fails to address the economic and social problems that led to the beginning of the conflict in 1964The Armando Ríos Front, 200 rebel soldiers operating in Guaviare (Southeast Colombia) who held ex-presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt captive between 2002 and 2008, have rejected the peace deal, arguing that it fails to address the economic and social problems that led to the beginning of the conflict in 1964.
Fuente: http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/07/07/inenglish/1467894820_485363.html
