President of Colombia Gustavo Petro handed Donald Trump a list of the country's main drug lords with the aim of receiving support from US intelligence services to apprehend them. The list included 'Chiquito Malo', Iván Mordisco, leader of the largest dissident group of the FARC, the armed group that signed peace with the government in 2016, and Pablito, one of the strongmen of the ELN on the border with Venezuela. The leaders of the Clan del Golfo considered those agreements an 'attack' on their 'good faith' and walked out of the negotiating table in Doha. 'President Petro put his personal interests above the greater good, which is peace in the territories,' the cartel stated at the time. The Colombian government and the Clan del Golfo are negotiating with a view to disarmament in exchange for legal benefits. The government of Colombia announced this Tuesday that it will resume peace negotiations with the Clan del Golfo, which had been suspended by the cartel two weeks ago in protest of agreements between President Gustavo Petro and Donald Trump. During his visit to the White House on February 3, the head of state agreed on cooperation to locate 'Chiquito Malo', the supreme commander of that drug trafficking group. So far, some agreements have been reached, such as de-escalating the conflict in populations plagued by violence in the northwest of the country. After months of confrontations on social networks, Petro and Trump stepped up efforts to combat drug trafficking in Colombia, the world's largest cocaine producer. This agreement prompted the Clan del Golfo to interrupt the dialogue that had been taking place since September in Qatar. The government's peace office reported that the negotiators met in Bogotá on February 9 and considered the suspension 'overcome', as reported by RFI and noted by the Noticias Argentinas news agency. The presidential office stated that the peace process 'continues to advance'.
