Colombian government violates peace talks agreement - Colombia news | Colombia Reports

24.10.12

Colombian government violates peace talks agreement - Colombia news | Colombia Reports: At the Oslo press conference, lead negotiator Humberto de la Calle declared that country’s economic model is a topic that is non-negotiable in the peace talks. But isn’t rural economic development the first of the six agreed-upon topics to be negotiated? Therefore, the economy is clearly negotiable according to the agreement signed in Havana by both the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).In particular, the country’s economic dependence on the extraction of natural resources (oil, coal, gold, etc.), which has hugely impacted rural communities and land ownership in the countryside,is one of the core issues that must be addressed with regard to creating a strategy for rural economic development.