A missed opportunity: Failures of the Agreement between the FARC-EP and the Colombian government on the solution to the problem of illicit drugs

During the dialogues to put an end to the conflict in Colombia 4 points have been agreed to be discussed between the FARC and the national government in Havana: land problems, political participation, illicit drugs problem, victims, and end of conflict. Each of these understood as key to achieving a "last and stable" peace, and it is proposed on the Framework Agreement that initiated the negotiating talks. Of these five points, there are already official documents on the first three that reflect what has been achieved in each of them.

It results evident that each one of these collected different realities and problems the country must face in order to achieve peace. However - and without pretenting to ignore the importance of other points - the section regarding the problem of illicit drugs is middlemost, since drug trafficking in Colombia has been instrumental in sustaining what has been the longest conflict in the Western Hemisphere.

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