Is the peace process in Colombia hurt?

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Editor's Note: David Bittan Obadía is a writer lawyer, political and international issues analyst, columnist for the newspaper El Universal de Venezuela and a contributor to other media. He has participated in the World Jewish Congress and is former president of the Jewish community of Venezuela.

(CNN Spanish) - On August 29 a video was released in which the guerrilla alias Iván Márquez, accompanied by alias Jesús Santrich, and others, declared the return to the armed struggle; I would say, to an attractive business. Santrich is accused of drug trafficking after having signed the peace agreement; his photo with a rifle, which he cannot use for his blindness and a Palestinian kufiya on his neck is shameful.

For his part, Rodrigo Londoño, aka Timochenko, remains attached to the peace process but criticizes the government; He explains that the great majority of the demobilized remain within the agreement, however it does not categorically slip from those who departed.

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Firmly, President Duque ordered the justice of Colombia to act and accused Nicolas Maduro of complicity with a narcoterrorist gang - which the Venezuelan president has denied. The international press speaks of the shelter of the Venezuelan authorities to the terrorists.

You have to put a hard hand - Uribe on this is not wrong - otherwise Timochenko and the Common Revolutionary Alternative Force party will become the political arm of the guerrillas and would be supporting Iván Márquez and his gang.

The ex-guerrillas must be required to uncheck those who abandoned the peace process and immediately be expelled from the party.

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What happened is very serious and we have to give it the correct reading. If countries do not join this event, a criminal group would be consolidating, possibly with a lot of funding, apparently supported by the Venezuelan government who, according to Colombian intelligence agencies, has long provided logistics, documents and all the tools to put in check to the region. According to the Venezuelan deputy, Omar González Moreno: "the reactivation of the FARC is part of Maduro's political defense against the international suffocation suffered by his regime."

In spite of everything, the balance of the peace process is positive. Betting on your failure plays against Latin Americans. The agreement was a starting point for a journey that must be traveled to be able to insert so many people into a new civil life. Colombia does not want to return to a tragic and sad past.

This incident in the peace process in Colombia and its connotations could be the trigger for the anticipation of an outcome in Venezuela, and perhaps produce the changes that many of us long for.