US EditionColombia to Resume Peace Talks with Gulf Clan Drugs Cartel
Talks facilitated by the Catholic Church and four governments aim to advance peace despite unresolved issues about operations against the Gulf Clan leader.
- On Tuesday, Colombia's government said it will resume peace talks with the Gulf Clan after a two-week suspension, facilitated by mediators including the Catholic Church and several countries.
- Colombia's government halted negotiations earlier this month after it said it would work with the United States to capture Jobanis de Jesus Avila, known also as Chiquito Malo, though Colombia suspended his arrest warrant in December.
- Facilitators including the Catholic Church and Qatar reported delegations met under facilitation by the Catholic Church and the governments of Qatar, Spain, Norway and Switzerland, agreeing to set up special areas from next month in three rural municipalities.
- Tuesday's statement did not clarify if operations against Malo will cease, saying only that agreements aimed at advancing the peace talks had been reached while the Gulf Clan controls dozens of communities in northern Colombia.
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Colombia is again negotiating peace and disarmament with the drug cartel Clan del Golfo. The Catholic Church has mediated with the help of four other states.
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Colombia to resume peace talks with Gulf Clan drugs cartel
Colombia said it will resume talks with the country's largest illegal armed group, the Gulf Clan. The talks were suspended two weeks ago after Colombian officials said they would try to “neutralize” the cartel's top commander.
The Government of Colombia and the Gulf Clan reactivated the peace negotiations after overcoming a crisis that threatened to break the process once and for all, after the drug trafficking group suspended the dialogues in protest of President Gustavo Petro's agreements with his US counterpart, Donald Trump.Read more
Petro resumes negotiations with the Gulf Clan after crisis over agreements with Trump
The Colombian government announced on Tuesday that it will resume peace negotiations with the Gulf Clan, which had been suspended by the cartel two weeks ago in protest of agreements between President Gustavo Petro and Donald Trump. On his visit to the White House on February 3, the president agreed to cooperate to locate “Chiquito Malo,” the top commander of that drug trafficking group. That agreement motivated the Gulf Clan to interrupt the di…
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