The United States Government decides to remove the extinct FARC guerrilla from the black list of terrorist organizations

The government of US President Joe Biden has decided to remove the extinct Colombian guerrilla FARC from its black list of terrorist organizations and has notified Congress of its intention, confirmed this Tuesday to Efe a legislative source.

This decision comes on the eve of fifth anniversary of the peace accords between the Colombian government and the FARC, which led to the disarmament and dissolution of the most powerful guerrilla in America.

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“I can confirm that the government sent a notification to Congress today informing us that they are going to remove the FARC from the list of terrorist organizations,” said the source.

Earlier, the spokesman for US diplomacy, Ned Price, had limited himself to saying that the State Department has given Congress “a notification with the next measures” taken by Washington regarding the FARC.

The organization had been blacklisted since 1997.

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On November 24, 2016, then Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and Rodrigo Londoño, leader of a rebel army of 13,000 men and women, signed a peace agreement that allowed the group to become a political party.

“The peace process and the signing of the peace agreement five years ago was a fundamental turning point in the long conflict in Colombia,” recalled Ned Price, who stressed that “it ended five decades of conflict” and “has led to Colombia towards a just and lasting peace ”.

“We have done everything possible to preserve it, at every stage,” he stressed. And “we remain fully committed to working with our Colombian partners in the implementation of the peace agreement,” he said. (I)