The dialogues with gangs from Medellín, Buenaventura and Quibdó have worn out over months of approaches without a clear legal framework. The ambitious commitment to total peace by Gustavo Petro's Government is like an octopus that has several of its tentacles at risk.
The hardest blow that total urban peace has received was in the country's largest port, where a truce had been achieved between the two main gangs. The Government sought to reduce doubt with the so-called Total Peace Law, which left in its hands the definition of the requirements.