mentioned it, martha. you re absolutely right. the cartels are in charge of the border. it s the cartels that are facilitating a security problem of human trafficking, sex trafficking, drug trafficking, the movement of terrorists across the border that are on the terrorist list and now exceed 100. we have no idea of those who got across who have obviously not been detected. we don t have a plan to deal with this. we should dust off the plans that we had columbia when the united states got involved in recognized full up that the counter insurgery, the farc and the cartels were impacting u.s. security with the drug trafficking problem that it was having. we got organized with our intelligence services and the united states military capabilities, not directly involved, but nonetheless technologically involved and
Colombia's government has agreed to a six-month ceasefire with the five largest armed groups operating in the country, President Gustavo Petro announced on New Year's Eve.
A group of armed renegades who refused to sign a 2016 peace accord in Colombia have declared a unilateral ceasefire until the new year, the country s peace commissioner tweeted Saturday.