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1 INTEGRAL FARMING DEVELOPMENT POLICY POLITICAL PARTICIPATION ILLEGAL DRUGS FINAL ACCORD TO END ALL CONFLICT TO BUILD A STABLE AND SUSTAINABLE Bolitas PEACE JEP (Special Jurisdiction for Peace) VICTIMS FOLLOW-UP AND VERIFICATION COMMITTEE CSIVI

2 Saturday, october 20th 2012 Ivan Márquez Farc, said: To FARC, the people s army, the concept of LAND is undoubtedly tied to territory; the two of them work as a whole that goes beyond the mere agrarian aspect, approaching strategic, vital, interests for the whole nation. That is why the fight for the territory is core within all struggles being addressed nowadays.

3 Communist Party Cuba That flag, that sky, that land, We will defend no matter what.

4 Communist Party Agrarian reform: The land for those who sow it Chile

5 Communist Party Land and freedom, The land belongs to he who toils My land and freedom, Civil war México Institutional Revolutionary Party

6 Communist Party Venezuela Communist party and MIR s activities suspended The act invoques the 114th article in the Constitution

7 Communist Party Communism continued its way up to Colombia: The jewel in the crown

8 COLOMBIAN LIBERAL GERRILLAS

9 What does it mean? (The land for he who toils, punishment for the tyrant).

10 PERIOD LAND GRANT UNUSED LAND TRANSFERENCE TO THIRD PARTIES UNUSED LAND TRANSFERENCE TO INDIGENOUS RESERVATION (Resguardos Indígenas) AND MINORITIES Ley 135 de 1961 ( ) Ley 1a de 1968 ( ) Ley 4a y 5a de 1973, Ley 6a de 1975 ( ) Ley 35 de 1982 ( ) Ley 30 de 1988 ( ) Ley 160 de 1994, Ley 812 de 2003 ( ) TOTAL During 55 years hectares/year hectares/year hectares/year

11 COLOMBIAN RURAL REALITY TO DATE REALIDAD RURAL COLOMBIANA HOY Private Property Government Property Natural Protected Areas Indigenous reservation (Resguardos Indígenas) Black Communities 45, 4 hectares 18, 7 hectares 12, 6 hectares 31, 6 hectares 5, 29 hectares Fuente: De acuerdo a datos IGAC, otras fuentes catastrales y otras fuentes públicas.

12 Private Property Government Property Natural Protected Areas Indigenous reservation (Resguardos Indígenas) Black Communities 45, 4 hectares 18, 7 hectares 12, 6 hectares 31, 6 hectares 5, 29 hectares records records Between the two of them records between the two of them 10,019 private property average 264,83 Government property average 3.249,36 indigenous communities and black communities property average

13 LAND OWNDERSHIP DISTRIBUTION IN COLOMBIA 0, 86% X

14 INTEGRAL FARMING DEVELOPMENT POLICY The Integral Farming Development Policy seeks to apply the same recipe under the usual fake premises; although, such premises are intended to be more aggressive: through the consolidation of property expropriation, via confiscation or property-recovery process, based on a unique procedure (created in La Habana).

15 NATIONAL LAND AGENCY = TOGETHER OPENING THE DOORS TO PROGRESS NATIONAL LAND INSTITUTE

16 FARC S PRESENCE IN THE COLOMBIAN TERRITORY

17 MAP OF ILLICIT CROPS AND ILLEGAL MINING Illegal mining Illicit crops

18 MAP OF TRANSITORY RURAL AREAS Rural Areas

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20 DRUG TRAFFICKING ROUTES

21 ILLEGAL DRUGS FARC are not drug dealers and we do not have any money FARC stated they were not drug dealers, that they simply charged tolls. That is why they did not disclose their trafficking routes.

22 ILLEGAL DRUGS FARC s drug traffickers will be granted amnesty, given that this crime will be deemed as connected with this rebellion. They won t be extradited. Manual eradication of illicit crops will be prioritized (to avoid the socalled damage to the environment caused by fumigation with glyphosate). Community assemblies and city councils will be in charge of the follow-up and assessment of the integral crop replacement program.

23 STRONG RIOTS BETWEEN COCALIZED CROFTERS AND THE POLICE FORCE Coca crofters protest in North Santander leaving 4 wounded. Tumaco still paralyzed due to coca crofters protests.

24 CONSEQUENCES COCA ACRES A BOOST OF COKE CROPS!

25 DEA AND UN REPORTS ON DRUG TRAFFICKING 92% of cocaine that infiltrates the USA is colombian: DEA UN report on drugs highlights rise-up in illicit crops

26 WILLIAM BROWNFIELD & BARRY MCCAFFREY S PRONOUNCEMENTS Illicit crop eradication is dealt with aircraft fumigation, not on foot.

27 PRESIDENT TRUMP S LETTER TO COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT

28 Plan Colombia should be terminated DIANNE FEINSTEIN

29 DOUGLAS FARAH FARC launder their money through the Venezuelan petroleum company PDVSA.

30 STRAINED RELATIONS BETWEEN COLOMBIA AND EEUU DUE TO DRUG CONFLICT ESCALATION AND NO EXTRADITION Harsh letter from US Ambassador to Colombian Supreme Court

31 ALEXÁNDER ROMERO, LEAD CONTRACT-KILLING MAN BENEFITTED FORM JEP (Peace Special Jurisdiction) FARC to explain why they registered a hired-killer on the JEP list

32 DRUG-TRAFFICKERS BENEFITTED FROM JEP The 25 capos who got included on the FARC lists There are also criminal agency lords, Government intel traced them.

33 PROSECUTOR S OFFICE STATES THERE ARE 400 JEP ILLEGAL BENEFICIARIES The 400 FARC s illegal beneficiaries that El Tiempo, El Espectador, and Revista Semana do not talk about.

34 US EMBASSY WARNING TO COLOMBIA We are following up on cases of people offering up to 5 million dollars for a spot on FARC s list to avoid extradition Ambassador Kevin Whitaker.

35 RODRIGO CADETE S PRISON BREAK After breaking from prison, AKA Rodrigo Cadete joined the FARC s drop-outs Once fled, AKA Rodrigo Cadete joined FARC dissenters. The ex guerrilla commander, who had participated in the Peace Accord, broke from prison after leaving his security guards unarmed.

36 CONSEQUENCES 700 non-demobilized FARC members, supposedly drop-outs or dissenters ELN MEN BACRIM MEN.

37 CONSEQUENCES Where are all FARC s missiles? Only 8370 weapons have been delivered out of the that the Colombian Government thought FARC supposedly possessed.

38 ACCORD ON THE CONFLICT VICTIMS Substitution of prison sentences for symbolic sanctions: general jobs, activities, labors by the concept of Restauration justice.

39 ACCORD ON THE VICTIMS Automated access to caucus in Congress. Participation through social organizations and 16 peace electoral districts.

40 FARC DID NOT SEND ALL RECRUITED CHILDREN BACK HOME DA s Office says FARC recruited underaged members Meta and Antioquia had the highest percentage of minor recruitment. This crime boosted up in Distensión zones (Conflict-free zones). -ninos-han-sido-reclutados-por.html

41 FARC DID NOT RETURN THOSE KIDNAPPED FARC obliterated over 400 recently kidnapped people

42 FARC S ASSET LIST: MOCKERY Colombia enraged: FARC pretend to repay their victims with pots, orange juicers, dishes and boots

43 JAIME CAUTIVA S ARREST, FARC FIGUREHEAD CAUGHT WITH 3 MILLION DOLLARS Said to be FARC figurehead claims money fell onto him from heaven.

44 MAURICIO PARRA S ARREST, FARC FIGUREHEAD CAUGHT WITH 17 MILLION DOLLARS Surtifruver grocery market s owner s business partner (sindicated for the murder of Surtifruver s owner s), is an allegedly FARC S figurehead.

45 FIGUREHEADS ABROAD DA s office tracks down possible FARC s realties and assets in Seven countries

46 DECREE BILL 899 ISSUED IN 2017 Through which procedures and instruments for collective and individual, economic and social, reincorporation are established in accordance with the Final Peace Accord, signed between the Colombian National Government and FARC-EP on November 24th, 2016.

47 POLITICAL PARTICIPATION FARC has been granted 5 hand-picked electoral seats in the Senate and 5 seats in the House of Representatives.

48 POLITICAL PARTICIPATION 16 other electoral seats are appointed within the special peace districts, strategically located in the 168 municipalities historically victimized by FARC s criminal actions. Although political parties non-participation in these Seats has been established, territorial control will be evidently held by social organizations with similar beliefs.

49 POLITICAL PARTICIPATION special peace districts

50 POLITICAL PARTICIPATION Illegal mining Illicit crops Rural Areas

51 10% of the annual budget distribution for the proper functioning of organizations and political parties will be granted to FARC. Over 600 thousand dollars a year. FARC will be granted another 600 thousand dollars to support their think tank centers, in charge of teaching their communist principles.

52 PEACE SPECIAL JURISDICTION A court created apart from the regular legal system. The penalties to be imposed on gerrilla members do not comply with international justice standards, nor does the truth guaranty for no crime repetition. Legal pursuit instrument against civilian lives and military. No legal guarantee, no legal actions.

53 DIEGO GARCÍA - SAYÁN Openly Marxist. Has ruled and signed sentences at the Interamerican Human Rights Court against the Colombian Government and has pardoned sentenced Sendero Luminoso terrorists from Perú.

54 Commission for the Follow-up, impulse, and implementation of the Accord (CSIVI) created by decree No from Dec 7, 2016 Es la encargada del seguimiento, impulso y verificación conjunta de la implementación the Final Accord fordel conflict Acuerdo termination. final para la terminación del conflicto. In charge of following up, boosting, and jointly verifying the implementation of Está integrada Composed por tres by miembros three FRAC de las members FARC y and tres three miembros government del Gobierno officials. Nacional. Iván Márquez Pastor Alape Jairo Quintero Sergio Jaramillo Rafael Pardo Juan Fernando Cristo In case of decision stagnation, decisions made by CSIVI will be made final by the accompanying countries, Cuba and Venezuela.

55 CSIVI Controls all decrees, bills and legislative acts issued by government bodies to be approved in congress. Infringes Congress constitutional competence. All legislative issues will surround this Accord for the next 10 years.

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