I'm John Bachelor with my colleague Evan Ellis, Professor Evan Ellis of the US Army of War College, quickly.

Amid stifling heat and humidity in the remote Colombian juggle,

guerrillas carrying machine guns and rifles creep their way through the undergrowth.

This is Reuters' colorful opening.

Gustavo Petro, the President of Columbia, said that he was going to bring all the rebels in from the cold.

What went wrong, Evan?

He's got enough trouble at home not to worry about Madura.

We have a couple of minutes.

This is a continuing tragedy also that is unraveling.

You have to go back to the flawed peace deal in 2016 that previous President Juan Manuel Santos

negotiated with the

fork which was then in combination with uh... the e l n the the larger of the two

rebel groups at the time uh... based on that uh... flawed peace deal two things happen

one uh... cocoa production cocaine production on that

the flawed peace deal two things happened one cocoa production exploded had previously been under control and two there was a

fragmentation and shift to groups and so some of the demobilized FARC went into the

ELN making them more powerful. Some groups stayed on the battlefield with respect to

the FARC. The other pure narco groups began to form into different more powerful factions competing for power in Colombia.

And then after a brief intermezzo with conservative even duke in Colombia you had the election

owing to a lot of frustration with a lot of things in Colombia of a former

m. i think drila gusavo petro. Petro's concept was, you know, let's negotiate peace

with everyone, this fragmented environment.

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