Colombian Prosecutor criticizes “chaos” and “quite lax” position in Petro’s management of public order

The Colombian attorney general criticized “chaos” and “quite lax position” in the president’s handling of public order Gustavo Petro that aspires to put an end to half a century of internal conflict through peace negotiations with different armed organizations.

According to the head of the investigative body, Francisco Barbosathe arrests and prosecutions of suspected criminals have decreased in recent months due to “that distortion and that disorder and that chaos in the management of public order in Colombia”, he asserted in an interview with the newscast Noticias Caracol.

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The first left-wing president in the country’s history faces strong opposition to his policy called ‘Total Peace’ with which the government plans to agree on benefits for drug traffickers who abandon crime and submit to justiceas well as peace negotiations with guerrillas.

“Total Peace cannot be that you intends to vacate prisons or legalize the drug trafficking chain or make political agreements without saying so with organizations of that nature because what that would generate is a kind of anarchy (…) it cannot be putting everything in the same bag ”, Barbossa maintained.

Petro delegates are negotiating the disarmament of the ELN Guevarist guerrilla and the so-called FARC dissidents that remained in arms after the 2016 peace agreement under which most of their ranks demobilized.

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As a gesture of peace the government extended a truce to the main armed groups, but two of them have already fallen.

He National Liberation Army (ELN) He refused to take advantage of them and continued the harassment. Then he gulf clan -the largest drug gang- broke the truce with attacks on civilians and soldiers that led to its suspension by the government.

On Wednesday the ELN killed nine servicemen in the deadliest attack since Petro came to power on Aug. 7.

The president expressed his “total repudiation” of the aggression, questioned the guerrillas’ desire for peace and summoned his negotiators to “examine” the case. No decisions have yet been made on this.

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The murder of the soldiers on the border with Venezuela “It shows that we have a rather lax position in the management of public order,” the prosecutor complained.

Colombia is experiencing an armed conflict of more than half a century that pits drug traffickers, guerrillas and state agents against each other.

After decades of fighting drugs, Colombia remains the largest producer of cocaine and the United States its main consumer.

Source: Elcomercio

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