ASSESSMENTS
Colombia's Armed Groups Give Peace Another Chance
Sep 11, 2017 | 11:27 GMT
(LUIS ROBAYO/AFP/Getty Images)
Highlights
- Should they demobilize, Colombia's largest drug-trafficking organization, the Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, and its second-largest leftist militant group, the National Liberation Army, would reduce the overall threat that armed groups pose to the Colombian government.
- The groups' surrender, however, would have no lasting effect on the international cocaine trade, and it would spur localized violence in Colombia as remnants of the organizations compete for resources and land.
- Negotiations between the groups and the government will extend beyond the current congressional period and into the next presidential administration, complicating the peace process.
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