Colombian leaders should acknowledge how drug trafficking has penetrated the nation’s tradition, economic system and politics and the way the worldwide struggle on medicine is driving its inner armed battle, Colombia’s fact fee stated on Tuesday in a long-awaited report.
The fee, established as a part of a 2016 peace deal between the federal government and the now-demobilized Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels, urged the nation to reassess the position of medication in its nearly 60-year inner battle.
Among the many fee’s suggestions are calls to implement substantial adjustments in drug coverage with a give attention to regulation, and to steer a worldwide dialog addressing coverage adjustments.
Different suggestions included advancing peace talks with the Nationwide Liberation Military (ELN), tackling corruption and guaranteeing high quality of life and dignity for all communities.
President-elect Gustavo Petro attended the presentation and pledged to hold out the suggestions.
“These suggestions will grow to be profitable within the historical past of Colombia,” stated Petro, a former member of the M-19 rebels, including cycles of vengeance should finish.
Some preventing continues
From 1985 to 2018, 450,664 folks have been killed within the battle, in keeping with the reality fee, whereas 55,770 have been kidnapped between 1990 and 2018.
Greater than 7.7 million folks have been displaced from 1985 to 2019 and 121,768 have been disappeared between 1985 and 2016, in keeping with the fee.
Regardless of the peace deal, which ended FARC’s position within the battle, preventing continues in some elements of Colombia between leftist rebels from the ELN and FARC fighters who reject the accord, in addition to crime gangs and the army.
The fee was given three years to research the reality of what occurred throughout the armed battle and supply a broad clarification of how atrocities occurred.
The greater than 1,000-page report included hours of testimony at personal and public hearings, the place perpetrators and victims alike spoke in usually emotional recountings.
Drug trafficking and the struggle on medicine contributed to the degradation and extension of the battle into considered one of complete struggle, the report stated.
Colombia, a significant cocaine exporter, joined the struggle on medicine within the Eighties beneath strain from the USA and continues to face fixed U.S. strain to eradicate coca, cocaine’s chief ingredient, and sort out trafficking, the report stated.
Present President Ivan Duque, whose time period formally ends in August, didn’t attend.