Iván Márquez
The first of these is the judicial assembly or entrapment plotted by the Attorney General and the DEA that has unjustly placed Jesus Santrich behind bars. The Prosecutor buried the dagger of his resentments in the heart of trust in the immense majority of FARC guerrillas.
The second is the impressive disfigurement of the JEP that today makes that Jurisdiction unrecognizable compared to the original text signed by the parties in Havana. There is no precedent on planet earth in which a peace agreement, after being signed and celebrated by the plenipotentiaries of the parties, has been modified at the whim of interested persons into a form utterly alien to their construction.
The third circumstance is that the determination to comply with essential matters of the agreement there is nowhere to be seen, such as the Political Reform, without which there would be no conditions for the transition from armed rebellion. It is inconceivable that 5 years after the approval of the first partial agreement, land has not been formalized or titled in favor of the peasants who currently own them. Without underestimating the role of the incompetence of certain state officials, the ordinary citizen perceives that they tremble with fear in front of the land owners and land dispossessors.
The great majority still hope to save this peace process that made us all dream of the Colombia of the future. It is necessary to return to the original text of the Agreement signed in Havana and to deposit with the Council of the Swiss Federation as a Special Agreement of Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, and subsequently before the UN as a unilateral declaration of State. The Peace Agreement is an Official Document of the Security Council, which generates an international compliance obligation for Colombia.
I feel that the peace of Colombia is trapped in the networks of betrayal, and not so much because the agreement has not materialized, which requires time for its concretion, but because of the modifications introduced that disfigured the agreement. The agreement is not the one we signed in Havana. The mad artificers of that Frankenstein are the Attorney General, some parliamentarians frightened of peace and truth, the Court that is a weather bave that changes its decisions according to political winds, and the Government itself. Pacta Sunt Servanda! The agreements must be kept and fulfilled.
I want to thank Professor Jairo Estrada for the torch of his reflections that always illuminate the path of politics and where he invites me to take office as Senator of the Republic on July 20. In the same sense, of great impact for me was also the letter of Gustavo Petro, full of humanity, of faith in the role of our youth in the construction of the Colombia of the future. Thank you, thank you very much to both of you. I will continue to work day and night without ceasing for the consolidation of the peace of Colombia, for the fulfillment of the agreement, for the social and economic reintegration of the guerrillas in the ETCR, without legal insecurity for anyone, even evading unusual military operations launched by the command of the army against me and against Oscar Paisa, a decision that does not take into account that there is an agreement for the termination of the conflict.
I ask the social and political organizations of the country to keep the banner of peace high, without faltering. Peace is the highest of all rights and without it we will not be anything as a nation. Let us be his missionaries. Let us not allow the obstructions to spoil the most extraordinary achievement of Colombia in recent decades.
The Santrich case and the treachery of the State to the peace agreement must not become the trigger for a return to confrontation. We have more traps ahead designed to sabotage peace.