By: Jorge Eliseo Cabrera Caicedo
It is taking a lot of work for Colombians to understand the official policy of being permissive, complacent and benevolent with armed groups and all kinds of criminals.
This week, analyst Alfredo Rangel called her: “The appeasers against crime and drug trafficking.” He qualifies as follows: “The rulers who believe that treating criminals delicately, giving in to their pretensions, freeing them from guilt for their crimes by considering them victims of an unjust society, giving them rewards and avoiding confronting them will convince them that by fair means abandon their criminal activities, and submit to the law to enjoy all their ill-gotten wealth. It is a very clear vision of the current situation in Colombia, and a faithful reflection of the very serious consequences that this policy has had in Ecuador and Mexico.
Indeed, in Ecuador drug trafficking was stopped for 10 years, thousands of drug traffickers were pardoned and Colombia was sued for the fumigation of coca crops on the border. The results are visible: “The strengthening and multiplication of criminal gangs and the explosion of violence and insecurity that Ecuador is experiencing today have this origin: “The appeasement of crime and drug trafficking.”
The same thing happens in Mexico with President López Obrador where criminal gangs and drug trafficking “Exercise control of territories and entire populations.”
Alfredo Rangel warns that in the face of the “soft and benevolent attitude of governments, criminals take advantage of the situation, deceive with false promises of peace, repentance and abandonment of their criminal activities, and continue to strengthen and enrich themselves hand over fist, taking advantage of the fact that governments “Let your guard down, satisfied that you believe the problem has been solved.”
Finally, the author makes a severe criticism of the current government of Colombia for the current policy of “Appeasement against crime.”