Was it a mistake for 99 Colombian guerrillas to lay down their arms?

<p>Fighters in legal limbo after accepting ‘total peace’ plan of Petro government just days before hardliner Abelardo De la Espriella took over</p><p>In mid-June, 99 guerrilla fighters were flown by helicopter to a small settlement in a rural area of southern Colombia where they lined up and, one by one, handed their weapons to government officials: rifles, pistols, machine guns and grenade launchers.</p><p>They also stripped off their heavy tactical vests, field packs and camouflage uniforms, which were each piled into a bonfire to mark the beginning of a new life away from an armed conflict that has claimed nearly half a million lives in the last six decades.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/29/former-guerrillas-colombia-fate-new-president">Continue reading...</a>