Petro tells ELN that “the path to peace” is not turning “the human body into merchandise”

The Colombian president, Gustavo Pedroguaranteed this Tuesday in Barranquilla what “The path of peace“will not return”the human body a commodity“, in response to the decision of the guerrilla of National Liberation Army (ELN) to end the suspension of kidnappings for economic purposes.

“Kidnapping only leads to extortion (drug trafficking) (…) The path to peace is not to transform (…) the human body into merchandise, what is essentially human has to leave the market“, expressed the president during the day of ‘Government with Popular Neighborhoods‘in the capital of the Caribbean department of Atlantic.

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He THEN announced on Monday that it was giving “to finish”the suspension of kidnappings for economic purposes, considering that the Executive did not comply with the creation of a“multi-donor fund for the peace process”, to which the Government responded that the “elimination”of this crime is not negotiable with the State.

In this sense, Petro stated that “Whoever wants to build a new society, the first thing they have to remove is human beings from the market, it cannot be a commercial issue.”.

“A kidnapping is nothing more than a commercial transaction of human beings”, stressed the head of state.

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The Government and the ELN announced in December last year, in the fifth negotiating cycle, held in Mexico Citythat this guerrilla would put an end to kidnappings for economic purposes.

It is planned that the Government and ELN delegations will meet in Caracas between May 20 and 25 to sign a new agreement within the framework of peace negotiations, which resumed in November 2022, but it is not known what will happen after the ELN’s decision to resume the kidnappings.

Source: Elcomercio

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