During a debate on fulfillment of government responsibility in the Senate’s Second Standing Committee – to which Foreign Minister Claudia Blum (who was absent from the meeting and sent her vice chancellor) and Ceballos were summoned – Ivan Cepeda made reference to what the Commissioner called “de-Havanizing peace” and reproached his disregard for the Protocol of Rupture, violating a commitment made by the Colombian state with six other signatory nations.

The Senator also condemned public statements by Ceballos after the inclusion of Cuba on the U.S. list of countries that do not cooperate in the fight against terrorism drawn up by that country’s State Department.

He recalled that, since the beginning of the new administration in Colombia, Cuba has played an important role as a guarantor of the peace process, recalling that Ceballos and other officials held talks with Cuba and the National Liberation Army (ELN) delegation, looking to make progress on the issue of their return to Colombia.

“However, from very early on, Commissioner Ceballos began to publicly disregard these contacts and the commitments made.

“The efforts of Dr. Miguel Ceballos have been directed toward undermining all essential pillars of any present or future peace policy,” Cepeda stated.

The Alternative Democratic Pole Senator also noted how the current Colombian government’s foreign policy, unfortunately, seeks to undermine the peace process, and criticized Colombia’s treasonous, unprecedented treatment of Cuba as a guarantor country and host of the peace talks. “Never before has our country been so prostrate, so submissive to U.S. policy, than we are now,” he added.

For his part, Antonio Sanguino pointed out Ceballos’ responsibility in sabotaging the peace agreement and thanked Cuba for its role, on behalf of the millions who support an end to the decades-long conflict in their nation.

He went on to report that the two Senators would file a disciplinary complaint against Miguel Ceballos “for violating the Constitution, violating the right to peace, failing to implement the Peace Agreement, and clearly acting in bad faith in each of the responsibilities he bears in his position.”

(Source: Granma)

The Guarantor countries support all those who defend the Peace Process in Colombia.

Likewise, they confirm the validity of the historic Final Peace Agreement and consider that its effective implementation and strict compliance is the way to preserve peace.

In this context, the protection of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, which was designed and agreed upon with the priority objective of guaranteeing truth, justice, reparations, and non-repetition, as well as issues related to agrarian reform, substitution of illicit crops, security and full reintegration and reinstatement of former FARC-EP combatants into civilian life, are of particular relevance, in the interest of consolidating the peace process.

The Guarantor countries, Cuba and Norway, reiterate once again the willingness to continue supporting and accompanying efforts to achieve a stable and lasting peace in Colombia.

(Granma)

Colombia is virtually immersed in a dirty war against the forces of the left in the country. At least 120 social leaders have been murdered in the last three months and 92 former FARC-EP guerrillas since the signing of the Peace Accords in Havana.

The President of Colombia, Iván Duque, traveled to Lima, Peru, to join the chorus and, once again, attack Venezuela, based on the report presented by Chilean Michelle Bachelet on the situation of human rights there.

A report from the newspaper El Espectador, highlights the following words of the Colombian president in Lima: “I hope that now with the results of Michelle Bachelet’s report, the International Criminal Court (ICC) can quickly, not only open the investigation, but have strong evidence to proceed to trial, so a dictator who has finished off the Venezuelan people can get what he deserves.

And as generally happens with these characters, muttering to himself, he added: “I can speak with moral authority because I was the first, three years ago, to denounce Maduro before the ICC.”

If I were to analyze his words, it would be enough to address the “moral authority” issue, but instead of inventing “motes” in the eyes of others, he should at least worry about the spiral of violence in own his country, where between January and November last year, 226 social leaders were killed.

Will the Colombian government do something to stop the massacre and support the Peace Accords with the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (FARC-EP), converted by the President’s work and grace, into a meaningless document? What will be done about the murders of former FARC guerrillas?

The issue of land, the main demand of campesinos and their communal and social leaders, prioritized by the guerrillas and reflected in the Agreement, is one of the main pending tasks that the government of Colombia owes its people, but the President has forgotten this. Colombian campesinos have more than once asked President Duque to open a dialogue, to address the problem and stop the wave of lynchings, but he remains more concerned with the supposed “human rights situation in Venezuela” and ignores the demands of Colombians.

Do the deaths of social and communal leaders in the Colombian countryside have nothing to do with respect and protection of human rights in the nation?

(Granma)