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The "total peace" policy opened parallel negotiations with the ELN, FARC dissident factions and the Gulf Clan. A tribunal charged former FARC members with war crimes, and the largest cartel suspended talks after the understanding reached between the Colombian and US presidents. Coca cultivation and gold trafficking fund several of the groups involved.
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In January the US president threatened a military operation against Colombia following a raid in Venezuela; Bogotá lodged a formal complaint. Within weeks the two presidents met at the White House. The episode combined tariff threats, visa measures and sanctions designations with a rapid diplomatic reversal, and the resulting understanding carried directly into Colombia's talks with armed groups.
The presidential race concluded in a narrow runoff win for Abelardo de la Espriella over Iván Cepeda. The US president publicly endorsed the winner before the vote, and the outgoing president alleged foreign interference in the result. The losing camp pursued a legal challenge. Coverage divides between readings of the outcome as a security mandate and as a risk to institutional norms.
The supportive reading holds that negotiated demobilisation, transitional justice and rural investment are the only instruments that have historically reduced Colombia's armed conflict, and that suspending talks under external pressure forfeits the mechanism without offering a replacement.
Andean RegionThe critical reading holds that open-ended negotiations let guerrilla factions and cartels consolidate territory, recruit and expand coca and gold revenues while nominally at the table, and that violence rose over the period the policy was in force.
Andean RegionThe "total peace" policy opened parallel negotiations with the ELN, FARC dissident factions and the Gulf Clan. A tribunal charged former FARC members with war crimes, and the largest cartel suspended talks after the understanding reached between the Colombian and US presidents. Coca cultivation and gold trafficking fund several of the groups involved.