Government Attempts to Save Agrarian Jurisdiction Amid a Fragile Consensus with Opposition

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The government of Gustavo Petro does not want to be disarmed one of the few agreements it has reached with the opposition in Congress: approving the agrarian jurisdiction, a debt of the Peace Agreement signed in 2016 with the former FARC and that seeks to resolve the land disputes in the Colombian countryside. Since December 2024, when the first committees of the Senate of the Republic and the House of Representatives approved the bill in a join…