It has been a difficult process and there is much more to do. But the criticisms by the Solicitor General and the ranchers' union do not have any basis when, in the contrary, they should have to double their efforts to repair the damages of such a brutal war.

It is valid to warn that land restitution could affect poor rural communities that occupy a piece of restituted land, as the problem of "secondary occupants" is complex and deserved to be discussed.

The Defense Minister Luis Carlos Villegas said last Tuesday that the "bacrim" have turned into small criminal organizations that, although they have the capacity to intimidate, are not paramilitaries, but rather straightforward criminality.