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Colombian president Gustavo Petro attends the third round of peace talks in Havana to announce a six-month ceasefire pact with the ELN guerrilla in pursuit of ending decades of conflict in the South American country. IMAGES
Bogota, Nov 1 (EFE).- Former guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) gathered Sunday at the Bolivar Square, in the center of Bogota, to demand that the government fully comply with the peace agreement and stop the murders of those who laid down their arms four years ago. (Camera: JUAN DIEGO LOPEZ). SHOT LIST: FORMER FARC GUERILLAS GATHER AT BOLIVAR SQUARE, BOGOTA, COLOMBIA.SOUND BITE: JULIAN GALLO CUBILLOS, SENATOR OF FARC PARTY.TRANSLATION: What we intend to do is to raise awareness among the Colombian society. We want to raise awareness among the people in this country and of course to also draw attention of the national government and the State because to date, 236 ex-guerrillas who had signed the peace agreement have been assassinated.
Colombia's President Gustavo Petro holds an event in the capital Bogota with guerillas from the National Liberation Army (ELN) and civil organizations as a bilateral ceasefire comes into effect. IMAGES
Colombia's government and a delegation from the National Liberation Army (ELN) leftist guerrillas meet in the Venezuelan capital Caracas as they announce they will next month restart peace talks suspended since 2019. IMAGES
Bogota, Sep 22 (EFE).- Victims of Colombia’s armed conflict and former FARC guerrillas took to the central Plaza de Bolívar in Bogotá on Wednesday armed with beer and food, clothing and handicrafts to sell, almost five years after the signing of the peace agreement.Blanca Nubia Díaz, one of the 70 entrepreneurs participating in the first Emprende Paz (Embark on Peace) Festival, seeks justice for her daughter Irina del Carmen Villero Díaz, who she says was raped and murdered by paramilitaries in May 2001 in a rural area in the municipality of Albania, in the Caribbean department of La Guajira.Díaz, who has lived in Bogotá for 20 years, arrived at the festival to sell handmade bags and bracelets that she embroiders herself. (Camera: JUAN DIEGO LÓPEZ). SHOT LIST: THE EMPRENDE PAZ FESTIVAL IN THE PLAZA DE BOLIVAR IN BOGOTA, COLOMBIA. SOUND BITES: GLADYS ACEVEDO, MOTHER OF A SOLDIER WHO WAS KILLED DURING THE ARMED CONFLIC (IN SPANISH).TRANSLATION: 1. The project was born as a result of the fact that we did not have psychosocial support because the public force does not have a clear route on how to [support] the mothers.2. We make military dolls with the uniforms that our children have left us. This has memory and as long as we are alive, the memory of our children will continue to live, and we will make visible the problems that exist with the mothers of the murdered professional soldiers.
Montevideo, Sep 5 (EFE).- Since the confinement in 1971 that deprived more than 100 guerrillas of the National Liberation Movement-Tupamaros (MLN-T) of their freedom, a tunnel contructed by efforts in calculations and rods transformed into drills allowed a historic escape in a key year in recent Uruguayan history. (Camera: RAÚL MARTÍNEZ).B-ROLL OF THE PUNTA CARRETAS NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE THE PUNTA CARRETAS PRISON USED TO BE, IN MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY.SOUND BITES: MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL LIBERATION MOVEMENT-TUPAMAROS (MLN-T) JORGE ZABALZA (IN SPANISH).TRANSLATIONS: The important thing was the decision that we all had, the awareness that we had to get out some way because the fight had to continue. That was the point of the escape. We were in jail thinking about what was happening outside, about our comrades that were fighting, with all the news that came to us.