In Colombia there really is no war. Farc and friends are armed groups fuelled by the drug trafficking business and population oppression, lurking in the most re

In Colombia there really is no war. Farc and friends are armed groups fuelled by the drug trafficking business and population oppression, lurking in the most remote parts of Colombia where there is no presence of the state. So basically they are just thugs, but very well organised. If they really were an insurgency, had some kind of political agenda and vouched for some part of the population, then we could talk about a war, against a party with some legitimacy. Not the case here. There is no case of negotiating against a group that has nothing to bring to the table, and on the contrary it creates a very bad precedent. Were the plebiscite had succeeded today, the other armed group here, ELN, would have no incentive to stop its current mischievings knowing it also had a guaranteed agreement in the future with full pardon for them.