As a happy new year, President Gustavo Petro announced a bilateral ceasefire with several armed organizations.
By Anne Proenza
VShis is undoubtedly the very good news of this beginning of the year for Colombians: the government has announced a six-month bilateral ceasefire from January 1, agreed with five of the main armed groups in Colombia: the guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN), two Farc dissident groups (one which refused to sign the 2016 peace agreement and the other which subsequently withdrew), the Gaitanista Self-Defences of Colombia (AGC), from powerful paramilitary groups demobilized in the 2000s and known to be the armed wing of the Gulf Clan, the main drug-trafficking structure in the country, and finally the Autodefenses de la Sierra Nevada group which operates in the north and which is one of the oldest paramilitary group in the country.
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