From Excuses to Condemnation: Petro’s Two Faces Before Dissident Leaders ‘Calarcá’ and ‘Ivan Mordisco’

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President Gustavo Petro negotiates peace simultaneously with several armed groups in Colombia, including the two large umbrellas of dissident groups of the former FARC. But in recent weeks he has made it clear that he sees with very different eyes the two groups. While he raises the table of dialogues and bombards or attacks with artillery the one led by alias Iván Mordisco, whom he calls “mafioso” or “traqueto,” he insists on the commitment to …