BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) A brother regarding Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos provides revealed this the nation's biggest guerrilla team acquired primarily offered to hold tranquility talks within Colombia or inside neighboring Venezuela, as opposed to with Cuba.
Enrique Santos explained in a piece of writing posted within the newspaper El Espectador on Sunday that this government's crew possessed was adament how the talks not necessarily become held inside Colombia.
"We deciding on Cuba for safety measures along with mainly because it certain confidentiality," Santos had written from the article.
Representatives belonging to the Colombian authorities as well as Revolutionary Armed Forces connected with Colombia, and also FARC, initiated conversations within Havana with Nov. nineteen seeking an offer to separate the actual place's decades-old conflict. They at this time will be choosing a trip break so are for you to resume tells you on Jan. 14.
Santos, a correspondent and past director of the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo, is not a person belonging to the crew interested in the actual talks, even though he has served being a mechanic towards the govt negotiators.
He revealed details of prior conversations using the rebels commencing in February 2011. He mentioned she has happen to be involved "in a good permanent manner on this process."
Santos reported any particular one particularly challenging make any difference has been having one of the rebel leaders, Jaime Alberto Parra Rodriguez, for making the actual journey to Cuba for any initial discussions. Santos mentioned the actual rebels were distrustful in the ideas that will shuttle apart Parra, who's going to be better identified by simply that nom-de-guerre Mauricio Jaramillo and also the nickname "El Medico."
"It ended up being extremely tough to be able to coerce your FARC that will . take putting (Parra) on a helicopter offered simply by your state," Santos wrote. "At any time connected with taking him up, this individual been seen in guarded by simply over 50 gentlemen see thousands on the teeth. In the finale there was sobbing simply by females guerrillas and a farewell ceremony. That seemed to be that first major achievement: obtaining Jaramillo to help Havana. That process survived nearly a new year."
Santos said he yet others showed up throughout Havana upon Feb. 23, 2011, prior to their own primary contacts while using guerrillas, knowning that immediately after resting collectively with regards to 70 times, these people as a final point closed some sort of preliminary accord in August 2012 to be able to start the particular contentment talks. Until these people arrived at in which point, Santos said, "various times we were within the brink associated with splitting off" the particular discussions.
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