Breakthroughs in Colombia’s stalled peace process
Breakthroughs in Colombia’s stalled peace process
written by Adriaan Alsema October 30, 2016
While representatives of Evangelical Christians and FARC rebels announced agreement over gender-specific victim support, former President Alvaro Uribe had “constructive” talks with government peace negotiators.
Both the Evangelical Christians and Uribe represent significant minority constituencies that predominantly voted “No” in an October 2 referendum that suspended the ongoing peace process with the Marxist FARC, Colombia’s longest-living and largest guerrilla group.
Evangelicals resolve ‘gender ideology’ concerns
Liberal Party Senator Viviane Morales and her husband pastor Carlos Lucio, who both had claimed that gender-specific victim support was based on “gender ideology,” said Saturday that in direct negotiations with the FARC they had “resolved” the elusive issue.
President Juan Manuel Santos has been negotiating directly with other evangelical pastors about the alleged affronts to traditional family values in the peace deal, but so far with unknown results.
The Catholic Church has rejected claims the peace deals included “gender ideology,” which according to the Sociology Guide “refers to attitudes regarding the appropriate roles, rights and responsibilities of men and women in society.”
However, in the aftermath of the referendum it became clear that the Christians’ concerns were mainly about guarantees for equal rights for LGBT victims included in the peace deal.
More:
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB564-CIA-Releases-Controversial-Bay-of-Pigs-History/
(I can’t believe these dipsticks are willing to advocate for more war, more suffering, more grief for their fellow Colombians, so their pet obsessions can get satisfied. God forbid petty , despicable stuff like this becomes more important than other people’s lives.)