Valencia: FARC announcement is the rebirth of violence

The political analyst León Valencia, a member of the Center for Thought about Armed Conflict, Peace and Post-Conflict, said in CNN in Spanish that the announcement of the dissent of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) to retake arms is a situation “very worrying and we have to tell the world ”. Valencia said he knew about the FARC meeting with other guerrillas including the ELN and that they have alliances. “It's a minor guerrilla that demobilized, but they can do a lot of damage to people and the country. They are people with military experience, and especially with money, they have escalated with the illegal mining of gold and drugs. ” Valencia added that the situation is "bittersweet", says that part of the FARC continues in a legal way despite the breach of the government. "The sour is the rebirth of violence and we could have an escalation." The analyst also pointed out that if this dissent "begins to attack and kill politicians, it is already the degradation of the conflict, they had already made a practice of kidnapping and if now they are dedicated to killing politicians that means a huge misfortune in the country."