The parties announced the installation of negotiations last October in Tibúin the Catatumbo region, after a year of squabbles and held the second cycle of dialogues between December 2 and 11 in the department of Cauca, one of the hardest hit by violence.
In November The process experienced a crisis after the EMC left the table and accused the Government of “non-compliance”, which postponed the start of the second cycle of talks for more than two weeks.
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One of the largest agreements reached so far is the EMC’s commitment to renounce kidnapping for economic purposesalthough at the moment there has been no talk of a precise date nor has it been specified when he will release the people in his possession.
What is EMC
The EMC was born in 2016, in the middle of peace negotiations between the Government and the dissolved guerrilla of the FARC, when the First Front, led by Néstor Gregorio Vera, alias “Iván Mordisco” (who now commands the EMC), announced that it would continue in the armed struggle.
This group is made up of guerrillas who never joined the peace process, unlike the other major dissident, the Second Marquetalia, led by “Iván Márquez” who took up arms in August 2019, after having joined the agreement.
According to authorities, the EMC It has at least 3,400 members, of which 2,149 are armed and 1,331 are members of support networks.