00:00The law of submission to Barça has its flaws, but it looks naive.
00:05How does the government of Abelardo de la Estrella view the option of reaching a negotiated peace?
00:10The surrender law approved this week by the Congress of the Republic gives us some clues,
00:16But it still leaves questions unanswered.
00:18The new law corrects one of the main errors of the total peace process under Gustavo Petro's government.
00:24because it recognizes that armed groups, outside the law of contemporary Colombia,
00:30They are more of a transnational criminal gang than insurgent movements with political aims.
00:37The question that remains is the extreme confidence in a security strategy built on the force of the State,
00:45without a comprehensive and complex perspective of a problem of violence that has changed its characteristics a lot in recent times
00:52years.
00:53At the risk of repeating ourselves, we have to return to one of the major conclusions of the Petro government.
00:59Total peace was a complete failure.
01:02With the information we obtained in the final months of the previous administration,
01:07It became clear that the envoys of former President Petro treated the matter with worrying generosity.
01:13to the members of the armed groups.
01:16The frozen food of the then peace commissioner, Dario Llorueda, is a bitter summary.
01:23The actions of the authorities were restricted in the hope that this would encourage peace talks.
01:30The president himself had to bear the burden for four years of his promise that the ELN would be eliminated within a few days
01:37months after arriving at the Nariño house.
01:39In the end, none of the proposed polling stations materialized, and a large part of the country elected the Estriella president.
01:47represent a return to a hardline approach to security.
01:51During the Petro administration, more stick and less carrot were needed.
01:58Now, the law of submission of the president of Estriella seeks to reverse that balance.
02:03As Justice Minister Iván Cancino said, the goal is to support the victims and to be, and I quote,
02:13Absolutely strong against crime in lockdown beginning.
02:15That is why, the minister said in the plenary session of the Lower House, and I repeat, it does not allow zones
02:21nor the suspension of arrest warrants or of
02:29extradition in closure beginning.
02:30Then, upon reading the details of what was approved, one sees a series of sentence reductions under strict conditions.
02:38For those in leadership roles, the benefits are smaller, and all outlaw groups are included.
02:44under the same umbrella of criminality that must be subject to the law.
02:50So yes, we celebrate the return of the force of the stick to the equation and that in the terms of the
02:57The submission law has addressed concerns that the Prosecutor's Office expressed during the previous administration.
03:03However, we are left with doubts about the effectiveness of a law that seeks to encourage submission, but which has
03:12few incentives for this to happen.
03:15The star's government is betting everything on its military capabilities.
03:21He believes that the pressure from the authorities will be enough to subdue the criminals and bring them to submission.
03:28That view, in light of Colombian history, sounds somewhat naive.
03:33Yes, we need more show of authority, but all the experts on violence in Colombia demonstrate
03:40that criminal organizations have acquired a dynamic level of complexity
03:46which surpasses, for example, the scenario faced by the administration of Álvaro Uribe.
03:51In our country, unlike in El Salvador, we can't put half the world in jail.
03:57and believe that this solves the problem.
04:00We are still waiting for a comprehensive peace and security strategy,
04:04beyond the high-impact media blows.
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