BogotáA 90-44 vote ended Colombia’s legal path to peace talks.
Guerrilla groups now rank as criminal organisations, with no route to negotiated peace.
The Submission Act replaces the 1997 Public Order Law, which enabled the 2016 accord with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
Low-level members who surrender get 50% sentence cuts and commanders 30%, except child-soldier recruiters.
President Abelardo de la Espriella ran on all-out war against groups controlling large areas of the country.
How each outlet framed it
- Latin America Reports
- frames the law as ending negotiated peace, placing guerrillas on the same footing as ordinary criminal groups, and notes it replaces the 1997 Public Order Law
Sources: Latin America Reports