Peace talks

The cards are uncovered, and although not surprised, the noise of the dialogues came laden concerns. At what price we return to explore a formula that many times we stopped at the threshold of a failed state? Although I want peace as any Colombian-who does not want-I do not think the conditions are ripe.

Escalating violence, sowing terror as only argument, and complexities to negotiate with an armed group of drug smeared, must be weighed. Are 31 years of false starts and changes, local and global, that delegitimize negotiating with war criminals who have violated IHL. Peace? With impunity?

Peace can not be at the expense of citizens and democracy.

It would return to the old argument of "illegitimate state", which should give "due to the insurgency" and rebuild their institutions. That way, there will be one of the President's budget Santos when imposing a time limit for a negotiated end to the conflict.

The "roadmap" touches sensitive issues, especially for the field. Perhaps, if he had kept the Democratic Security policy, we could be aiming for a unilateral surrender of the FARC and the ELN, without yielding to the claims of the terrorists.

But today, with an emboldened guerrilla demands and specifications in hand, a generous legal framework and without warranties of truth, justice and reparation, lurking doubts. And in exchange for what? Who says this rural society?

If we had learned from the mistakes of the past, would not the worn path of negotiations, full of traps and vacuous speeches. Or go to neighbors who have kept revolving doors at the borders to terrorists and less smooth positions of other governments against terrorism, when all are signatories to the Treaty of Rome. Enable an approach, ignoring the pain of the victims or sidestepping the issue of drugs, are circumstances which affect the process.

How to understand what is happening? What makes you think the urban-they have never felt front-guerrilla violence that now negotiated peace is possible? -I hope I'm wrong-that, like Sisyphus, we will fall into the abyss.

The fact that the FARC and the ELN have ended up down in the mud of organized crime and drug trafficking, this approach makes unwarranted.

But also fallible and unstable the process and its results less reliable, if we saw the light at the end of the tunnel. We are not extremists, but skeptical.

The important thing is not to negotiate to negotiate, but to know what and when. No negotiations should start without abandon guerrilla takeover target weapons and the combination of all forms of struggle as a strategy.

The FARC and ELN are murderers, kidnappers and extortionists who recruit children, triggered mines, flying people and enriched with mafia money. Still, this society seems willing to hold out, again, the "political solution" and give them a status for their high command, and they alone, leaving the narco as heroes.

Or do all militia-accustomed to crime, drug trafficking and their brotherhood with BACRIM-are to demobilize?.