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This chapter describes a more recent development in the Community’s radical narrative, in which President Juan Manuel Santos is perceived to be ‘the same’ as ex-President Álvaro Uribe, despite different official rhetoric on peace and victims’ rights. It describes how the Community’s four demands have been translated into orders by the Colombian Constitutional Court, leading to an attempt at a presidential apology which was received ambiguously by the Community, and the attitude that Community members have to state reparations programmes. Drawing on conversations with Community members about current topics such as the peace process, it shows how the radical narrative functions as a self-reconfirming framework.
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“On 12 January 2006, the army sent a document to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, in which they affirmed that the Humanitarian Zones were inviable, because in the Geneva Conventions it is supposed that such zones should be created by agreement between sides in combat and at that moment there was no dialogue between the government and the guerrilla”, letter from the Community submitted to Humberto de la Calle and Iván Márquez, the heads of the government and FARC negotiating teams in the Havana peace process, 29 October 2014, during the fourth delegation of victims to Havana. Author’s personal archive.
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For example, Caracol Radio, 29 May 2013, ‘Comunidad de Apartadó no acepta desagravio del Gobierno por ausencia de Santos’, http://www.caracol.com.co/noticias/regional/comunidad-de-apartado-no-acepta-desagravio-del-gobierno-por-ausencia-de-santos/20130529/nota/1906946.aspx; El Colombiano 29 May 2013, ‘Víctimas de Apartadó no aceptaron desagravio del Gobierno’,
Terra, 29 May 2013, ‘El Estado que pidió un perdón que no fue aceptado por sus víctimas’,
http://noticias.terra.com.pe/internacional/latinoamerica/el-estado-que-pidio-un-perdon-que-no-fue-aceptado-por-sus-victimas,318ddf70a20fe310VgnCLD2000000ec6eb0aRCRD.html; and RCN Radio, 29 May 2013, ‘Comunidad de Apartadó, inconforme porque Santos no pidió perdón público’,
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Burnyeat, G. (2018). Differentiating Between Santos and Uribe. In: Chocolate, Politics and Peace-Building. Studies of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51478-9_6
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