🪖 Total offensive instead of total peace 🇨🇴 Colombia's right-wing president Abelardo de la Espriella proclaimed the de facto start of war against the guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN) and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in the hard-to-reach border areas where they are based. 🧑🌾 The civil war in Colombia has been going in waves since the 1960s. It all began around the struggle for fair land ownership and political rights, and today it has turned into a systemic problem: there are entire generations of people who grew up in the context of armed struggle and have known no other life. Former president Gustavo Petro, who tried to begin solving the problem through peaceful reintegration, was in general the first politician in the country to propose a fundamentally different way out of the endless bloodshed. Yes, that path was slow, it had a mass of problems, especially as regards mutual trust, but it produced results. For several years, the temperature of armed violence between the government and insurgent groups in Colombia dropped almost to zero. 📜 Yes, in 2016, still under the right-wing president Uribe, with Cuba's mediation an agreement with the FARC was signed for the first time. The once formidable Maoist structure agreed to lay down its arms in exchange for full amnesty and a start «from a clean slate». True, the right-wing government began killing former guerrillas with others' hands — the insurgents had to return to the jungle. Espriella, with his belligerent rhetoric of a sharp-toothed thug, only looks menacing from the outside. In reality, he is stepping on the same rake as his predecessors. For the decision taken, Colombians will again have to wash themselves in blood. 💀 Tellingly, the resumption of the civil war is probably the only election promise Abelardo has fulfilled. #SOVINTERN_WORLD #Hub_Latin_America ⭐️ Moscow Network Hub of SOVINTERN