economic opportunities, and a lack of the basic services provided by government including health and education. without those, the basic conditions for criminal group5 conditions for criminal groups to move in and undertake the5e to move in and undertake these kinds of activities will continue to exist. you were the colombian amba55ador when that breakthrough peace deal with the farc was signed in 2016. how is that deal viewed now in the country? i was actually the us ambassador but i was there amba55ador but i was there then, and it was always a 50 50 thing, and it isn t because colombians who reject did the accord or were 5ceptical about the accord reject peace, it s because the colombian security forces had become so successful at eliminating the military threat posed by farc and because farc had so di5credited itself by use of violence that
the farc started many decades ago, really in the 19605 and initially it was a rural insurgency dedicated to the overthrow of the democratic government. overtime, it really turned into a purely criminal organisation, a group dedicated to narco trafficking and extortion and other kinds of criminal act 705. the 2010 negotiations which began were intended to demobili5e the entirety of the farc and the santos administration which started the5e santos administration which started these talks made it 5tarted these talks made it clear that this was meant to be a one time only offer. if those members of the farc wanted to participate, fine, but if any members cho5e participate, fine, but if any members chose not to participate the fill weight of the law would be applied to them. so these are folks that rejected the idea of negotiations previously and they can only imagine that they think they can get a deal now
An armed dissident group of Colombia's disbanded FARC guerrillas said Sunday it was "ready" to start peace talks with the government next month in an apparent boost for leftist President Gustavo Petro's…
were they were escaping from the violence of the political violence between the two parties in colombia, having problems in the city or any wherever you were from. you came out here. yeah, so what did you do for a living out here? cattle and the thing summary culture and after that the drug trade began and everything with the coca plantations in this climate is good for it. yeah it s very good since 1999. there was no police or army force here, so it was just occupied by the farc. and then by the parliament could try to him. yeah so that s when the real violence begin. so really, the problems in this country pre existed the drug trade what we say here is that the drug crazy just made everything work. there s no judge here. there s few institutions here, right? basically you know that the state is here just because the army is here, so i think we re gonna make the major. oh yeah.
the land we re passing over is beautiful and lush. but the life for those below has been anything but colombia seems to be trapped in a vicious has used the territory as a haven for kidnapping and drug until recently, most of the news coming out of this part of colombia was not good. it was a front line in the war on drugs for lack of a better term and colombia s long struggle with the farc, a marxist guerilla force financed by drug trafficking, kidnapping and covert assistance from dirty war stakes, not about drugs per se, but about the ability of ordinary colombians to live without fear. we land in the jungle outpost of miraflores in the southern province of guaviare in the amazonian forest reserve. heavy presence of army