{"id":25465,"date":"2006-01-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-27T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dejusticia.org\/will-there-be-peace-with-the-eln-colombian-national-liberation-army\/"},"modified":"2017-04-11T07:19:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:19:14","slug":"will-there-be-peace-with-the-eln-colombian-national-liberation-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/will-there-be-peace-with-the-eln-colombian-national-liberation-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Will there be peace with the ELN (Colombian National Liberation Army)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>En los pr\u00f3ximos d\u00edas se iniciar\u00e1n las prenegociaciones de paz entre el Gobierno y el ELN, acordadas en el Di\u00e1logo Formal Exploratorio realizado a finales de diciembre en La Habana. En honor a la verdad, estas noticias se reciben normalmente con pleno -y justificado- escepticismo, pero las circunstancias en que se dan las negociaciones con ese grupo guerrillero permiten albergar algunas esperanzas.<br \/>\nEl moderado optimismo que pueden generar estos \u00faltimos hechos se origina en que las negociaciones pueden ser muy provechosas para las dos partes, raz\u00f3n por la cual se puede esperar que perseveren en el proyecto. <\/p>\n<p>Por el lado del gobierno, los di\u00e1logos ser\u00edan ben\u00e9ficos porque hasta ahora no tiene nada para mostrar en materia de procesos de paz con la guerrilla y, adem\u00e1s, la pol\u00edtica de Seguridad Democr\u00e1tica a\u00fan no ha evidenciado su capacidad para doblegar a los grupos guerrilleros y conducirlos a una mesa de negociaciones. <\/p>\n<p>De otra parte, un proceso de paz con el ELN le ayudar\u00eda al gobierno a legitimar ante el pa\u00eds y la comunidad internacional las negociaciones que se adelantan con los grupos paramilitares y neutralizar\u00eda muchas de las cr\u00edticas que se han formulado contra la Ley de Justicia y Paz. Ciertamente, las conversaciones con ese grupo guerrillero podr\u00edan replantear las preguntas acerca de c\u00f3mo se deben armonizar los procesos de paz con las exigencias de verdad, justicia y reparaci\u00f3n que han sido desarrolladas en los \u00e1mbitos de los derechos humanos y del derecho internacional humanitario.<br \/>\nPrecisamente, la necesidad del gobierno de legitimar el proceso con los paramilitares y de validar su pol\u00edtica de seguridad democr\u00e1tica permite pensar que estar\u00eda dispuesto a hacer importantes concesiones en las negociaciones, si ello le permite lograr resultados concretos. No ser\u00eda la primera vez que el gobierno se muestra &#8220;generoso&#8221; cuando se trata de alcanzar sus objetivos: pi\u00e9nsese solamente en las concesiones otorgadas en la Ley de Garant\u00edas Electorales y en los apetecidos cargos burocr\u00e1ticos que les ha entregado a algunos opositores. <\/p>\n<p>Esa disposici\u00f3n del gobierno ser\u00eda muy conveniente para el ELN. En primer lugar, porque esta organizaci\u00f3n atraviesa por un proceso continuo de debilitamiento pol\u00edtico, militar y econ\u00f3mico. Luego, porque ello le permitir\u00eda retomar un papel principal en los procesos de paz -despu\u00e9s de haber sido relegado a un lugar secundario en los anteriores gobiernos- y, finalmente, porque ello garantizar\u00eda que su inserci\u00f3n en la vida pol\u00edtica institucional puede estar acompa\u00f1ada de resultados concretos para la sociedad colombiana. <\/p>\n<p>Pero, adem\u00e1s, para el ELN tiene que ser cada vez m\u00e1s acuciante la pregunta acerca de si tiene sentido continuar con la lucha armada o si es aconsejable  optar por ingresar a la vida pol\u00edtica institucional. Este interrogante es m\u00e1s exigente si se observan los \u00faltimos desarrollos pol\u00edticos en Latinoam\u00e9rica y en Colombia. <\/p>\n<p>Ciertamente, en distintos pa\u00edses de la regi\u00f3n, los movimientos de izquierda est\u00e1n llegando al poder y, adem\u00e1s, antiguos guerrilleros est\u00e1n accediendo a las m\u00e1s altas posiciones. Esto \u00faltimo es lo que est\u00e1 ocurriendo ahora en Venezuela, en Brasil y en Bolivia, y lo que se puede presentar pr\u00f3ximamente en  Nicaragua o en El Salvador. Pero, incluso en Colombia los movimientos de izquierda han logrado buenos resultados en las elecciones regionales, y tambi\u00e9n antiguos guerrilleros se destacan por el buen papel que desempe\u00f1an en la vida pol\u00edtica.<\/p>\n<p>Los avances de la izquierda que han sido anotados contrastan radicalmente con la situaci\u00f3n de los grupos guerrilleros en el pa\u00eds. En realidad, para todos los colombianos es claro que, actualmente, no hay posibilidad alguna de tomarse el poder en Colombia a trav\u00e9s de las armas, y que la lucha guerrillera y la respuesta que ha generado vienen produciendo verdaderas calamidades para la poblaci\u00f3n colombiana. Tambi\u00e9n es evidente el aislamiento pol\u00edtico del movimiento guerrillero, como se evidencia en el desconocimiento generalizado acerca de sus planteamientos y propuestas y en la irrelevancia de los mismos en los procesos de decisi\u00f3n sobre las pol\u00edticas fundamentales del pa\u00eds. Por lo tanto, las prenegociaciones con el gobierno llegan en una \u00e9poca oportuna, en la que la opci\u00f3n por la lucha armada est\u00e1 siendo fuertemente cuestionada por los actuales acontecimientos pol\u00edticos en la regi\u00f3n y por el liderazgo que han asumido los movimientos de izquierda democr\u00e1tica. <\/p>\n<p>De esta manera, los di\u00e1logos entre el gobierno y el ELN se inician en un momento en el que para las dos partes ser\u00eda muy rentable lograr un acuerdo de paz. El gobierno obtendr\u00eda legitimaci\u00f3n para su cuestionada pol\u00edtica de paz y el ELN podr\u00eda conseguir importantes ventajas pol\u00edticas al decidir el ingreso a la vida institucional. <\/p>\n<p>El hecho de que tanto el gobierno como el ELN puedan obtener importantes beneficios de la suscripci\u00f3n de un acuerdo de paz es lo que permite alimentar algunas expectativas sobre los actuales acercamientos. Pero, como siempre, los resultados de las negociaciones son inciertos y muy probablemente no se ver\u00e1n en el corto plazo. A los colombianos s\u00f3lo nos queda guardar las esperanzas, recubri\u00e9ndolas con una gruesa capa de escepticismo para evitar dolorosas decepciones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though in all the cases is advisable to look at peace negotiations with skepticism, in the case of the negotiations that have been initiated with the Colombian National Liberation Army (ELN) some hopes can be harbored. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1022],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","subcategory-public-policies","medium-semana-en","post-scope-aaa-not-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Will there be peace with the ELN (Colombian National Liberation Army)? 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