A statement issued Saturday from the Palace of Conventions in Havana says Carrillo’s statements appeared to reveal a lack of commitment to the process of dialogue and express distrust concerning the same capabilities of the government delegation in the purpose of reconciliation.
Colombia’s Interior Minister compared the proposals on rural development in the insurgency with a “gift list” and a “Christmas tree.”
The negotiating group describes as unfortunate “Christmas” comparisons the Carrillo’s words and asserts that these trivialize FARC-EP proposals made to the talks table in Havana interpreting the interests of the majority.
According to the document, his opinions “does not tune with the prevailing mood of optimism among Colombians that bet and try to bring positive ideas to the goal of finding a bloodless end to the political, social and armed conflict in Colombia.”
After reading out the text, Laura Villa stated that the formulations of the guerrillas in talks collect popular demands and are not a “gift list”, but the record of rights that have been violated to the people and the State has the duty to guarantee them without further delay.
The purpose is to maximize farm production and rural communities in terms of food sovereignty and full improvement of the living conditions of the impoverished rural population and displaced by the conflict imposed by the power elites, according to the source.
The FARC-EP considered urgent and necessary to end the concentration of land ownership that, in their opinion, has resulted in the deepening of extreme inequality, expressed in a Gini coefficient (a measure of income inequality within a country) greater than 0.89, “the most outrageous and unfair on the continent.” (pl)