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Julio César Turbay
The government of the former liberal president, Julio César Turbay, created a peace commission to initiate talks with the guerrillas. Former President Carlos Lleras Restrepo, who had the mission to lead the process, resigned on the grounds that he was not allowed to establish contacts with the insurgency. Actors: Julio César Turbay and Carlos Lleras Restrepo -
Belisario Betancur
The conservative president, Belisario Betancur, initiated a peace negotiation with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Actors: Belisario Betancur, Carlos Lleras Restrepo, Otto Morales Benitez, John Agudelo Rios, Nohemi Sanin and Mario Revollo Place: Goal -
Belisario Betancur
The government of Betancur and the FARC signed the La Uribe Agreement, which included the bilateral ceasefire, the suspension of the kidnapping and the opening of political spaces for the guerrillas. The process failed and broke down in 1987 Actors: Belisario Betancur, Jose Lui Serna, Gerardo Ayerbe and Alfredo Carvajal Places: Meta, Cauca, Antioquia and Huila -
Virgilio Barco
The liberal president, Virgilio Barco, begins peace talks with the FARC, but the extermination by the right-wing paramilitaries of thousands of militants of the leftist Unión Patriótica party, linked to that guerrilla, prevents progress. Barco also starts dialogues with the M-19 guerrilla and issues an amnesty law -
Virgilio Barco
Barco's government signs a peace agreement with the M-19 that delivers weapons, reintegrates into civilian life and becomes a political force Actors: Rafael Pardo, Monsignor Alvaro Fandiño, Luis Ayala, Carlos Pizarro, Antonio Navarro and Virgilio Barco -
César Gaviria
The then president César Gaviria initiates conversations with the FARC and the Army of National Liberation (ELN) in the capital of Venezuela that later move to Tlaxcala, in Mexico. In 1992, the trial was broken for the murder of a former minister kidnapped by the guerrillas.
In that same year, the guerrillas of the Popular Liberation Army (EPL) were demobilized Actors: César Gaviria -
César Gaviria
During the Government of Gaviria, the members of the Socialist Renewal Current, a dissent of the ELN, are reintegrated into civilian life and handed over their arms. Actors: César Gaviria -
Ernesto Samper
The government of President Ernesto Samper grants political status to the ELN in an effort to achieve a peace agreement. There were also meetings with that rebel group in Spain and Germany that did not prosper. Actors: Ernesto Samper, Manuel Marulanda and Andrés Pastrana Place: San Vicente del Caguan -
Andrés Pastrana
The process with the FARC begins, the third formal attempt to achieve peace with that guerrilla. The dialogues were held in the middle of the confrontation and broke in February 2002. During the Government of Pastrana, there were also approximations with the ELN, without achieving concrete progress. Place: San Vicente del Caguan Actors: Luis Carlos Villegas, Olga Marin and Marcos Calarcas and Andrés Pastrana -
Alvaro Uribe
During the government of President Álvaro Uribe, who launched a military offensive against the guerrillas with the support of the United States, talks began with the ELN in Cuba. Actors: Carlos Castaño, Salvatore Mancuso Place: Cuba -
Juan Manuel Santos
President Juan Manuel Santos announced in early September that his government and the FARC signed a framework agreement that establishes a procedure, a road map, to advance peace negotiations that will begin in the first half of October in Oslo, Norway, and Then they will continue in Cuba. Actors: Timochenko, Rodrigo Londoño and Humberto de la Calle, Sergio Jaramillo Place: Cuba