Chapter 68: Peace talks resume

While fighting rags raged in the eastern part of the DRC, large investments led by traveling companies continue to be carried out in Kinshasa, the DRC's capital, and in Katanga, which borders Zambia to the south. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

The participation of the soldiers in the war also put great pressure on the local government of Katanga, who were already in a weak position compared to the government, and now they have one more wolf who travels around like a tiger, and they dare not make ghosts in the dark.

This also allows them to carry out their investments smoothly, even because of the lack of legal awareness and the poverty of the people, a little benefit can attract countless people to join, and the development here is going on faster than in South America.

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zhou You's companies have the same 20 percent stake in each company, but the money is paid by several banks for Zhou You, and Zhou You doesn't spend a penny. He invested most of his limited funds in infrastructure construction in the DRC, which alone has added 100,000 jobs to the DRC and created more than 200,000 jobs in the DRC.

The hydroelectric power station on the Congo River, the construction of the east-west railway, and the construction of the well-shaped highway have increased the number of workers employed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by 500,000 in one fell swoop.

The investment of those enterprises has brought an active economic force to the DRC, with infrastructure construction as the guide, mineral development and oil development as the driving force, and industrial processing capacity as the core, the DRC presents a thriving scene.

Although Nkunda's forces are still playing guerrilla warfare in the primeval forest, their power is not as strong as before. On the basis of a marked improvement in the living standards of the common people, an increase in employment, and an improvement in their living standards, any struggle will lose its original soil.

Therefore, Zhou You doesn't care about him anymore, and his demise is only a matter of time.

In Colombia in South America, after two years of intermittent negotiations, the two sides finally ushered in the dawn of peace.

Because, the leader of the guerrillas, Marulanda is going to die.

Born in 1930, Marulanda is 78 years old when Reyes, the second man in the Revolutionary Armed Forces, was killed by a stray bullet during skirmishes between the two sides of the civil war earlier this year.

Although his unexpected death cast a shadow on the peace talks, after the guerrillas calmed down, they also saw the reality clearly.

For more than half a century, Marulanda has been the most legendary guerrilla leader in South America, but he is old after all. His old age led to the decentralization of power among the guerrillas, and after the death of Reyes, the struggle for power was even more chaotic.

In such a situation, Marulanda finally made a huge concession for the sake of peace and was willing to let the guerrillas lay down their arms.

In the course of the previous peace talks, the hard-line Uribe had been demanding that the guerrillas lay down their arms unconditionally, but this condition clearly represented his lack of sincerity in the peace talks.

With the intervention of the international community, especially Europe and France, he finally lowered the conditions, that is, the conditional laying down of arms.

However, even if this condition is met, the guerrillas will not agree, and this is where the biggest contradiction between the two sides lies, and it is also the biggest obstacle to peace talks.

Now, the willingness of the aging Marulanda to lay down his arms and negotiate peace means that the biggest differences between the two sides have disappeared.

However, Marulanda first called Zhou You, who was willing to lay down their arms, but demanded that the guerrillas be given the right and treatment and that the members of the guerrillas could not be held accountable for their past crimes.

He demanded that Zhou You act as a mediator to ensure the legitimate rights and interests of the guerrillas.

After receiving a call from Marulanda, Zhou You agreed without much hesitation.

In fact, in the past few years, the two sides of the civil war have not been able to talk together, but it is not like before 2002, when the flames of war were ignited in various places. Because Colombia's economy is booming, the guerrillas and government forces have received countless benefits, and everyone is only interested in making money, and they are willing to fight there.

Zhou Youken readily agreed, also because the situation was different.

In 2004, although Zhou You had money at that time, he didn't have any power. In addition, at that time, Colombia was the bridgehead of the United States in South America, so Zhou You's involved in politics and was imprisoned by the United States.

But more than three years have passed, and at one point or another, the United States has almost lost ground in Colombia, and almost all of their other companies have been driven out of Colombia, except for some American oil companies in the north that can guarantee legitimate business rights.

After traveling through Colombia and five South American countries, including Africa, he has gathered a large number of interest groups around the world. In addition, he is now the majority shareholder of ten banks, which have also expanded their businesses in the process of development, and have grown rapidly in Africa. The power of this interest group is greater than that of any one consortium.

In such a situation, even the United States cannot afford to bully and travel around casually. On the contrary, in order to protect their interests in South America, they have to turn around and travel.

Yan Fangqing has been busy with disaster relief in China during this time, and Paris, an idler, is taking care of several children in Singapore. But she is an idle person, and she is not familiar with the place in Singapore, so she simply took advantage of the holidays of several children and took them on a cruise ship to start a global trip.

In addition to a few children, she also called a large group of husband and wife friends, couple friends, and prepared to drive from Singapore to London, then play around Europe, and then fly back to the mainland to meet the Olympic Games in August.

On the 4th of July, the tour arrived in the southern Colombian city of Cali, the capital of Valle del Cauca and the third largest city in Colombia. Although nominally ruled by government forces, the guerrillas were far more powerful than government forces, controlling more than 70 percent of the province.

Thanks to the presence of Buenaventura, a Pacific port facing Asia, it has become the largest port in Colombia after several years of construction, responsible for nearly half of Colombia's exports.

Whether it is ore or timber, including Colombian handicrafts, coffee, tobacco, and even industrial products, they are all shipped to Asia, to the mainland, to other countries in South America.

Therefore, this is also the area where the guerrillas and government forces are most contested, and although there has been no war in recent years, there is no shortage of secret fighting between the two sides.

Marulanda has been feeling unwell since last month and has been admitted to the hospital here. At the age of seventy-eight, he has had ups and downs all his life, and his body has long been full of holes, and from the day he was admitted to the hospital, it means that he can only be forced to be carried out of the hospital.

In his intensive care unit, Zhou You and Sanchez had a three-hour conversation with him, in fact, he didn't say much, most of them were people around him who spoke for him, and he could only confirm on the side that this was what he meant.

They discussed many issues, but the central theme was only one, and that was where the FARC should go in the post-Marulanda era.

In the face of his imminent death, Marulanda was very calm, and the only thing he couldn't rest assured about was his unfinished revolutionary cause.

Zhou You wrote down the demands they put forward and sorted out seven major peace proposals, with a total of 60 demands. In fact, 47 of these 60 articles have been negotiated in the past few years, and a consensus has been reached. However, there are still 13 points, and the differences between the two sides have always been very large, which is also the biggest obstacle to the peace talks.

Departing from Cali, the traveling plane flew directly to the capital, Bogotá, and with him arrived in Bogotá was Marulanda's trusted assistant Guayata, now the joint commander of the Seven Eastern Fronts, who is also the third leader of the guerrilla force.

As soon as I got off the plane, I was greeted by the convoy photographed by the Presidential Palace and arrived at the Presidential Palace. In the face of Uribe, who supported him at the beginning and ascended to the presidency, Zhou You's heart was also full of mixed feelings.

He is already in his second term as president, and since he took office, Colombia has enjoyed a booming development, rising national incomes and a steady rise in international status.

In 2002, Colombia's GDP ranked 14th among the Americas, not only lower than the ABC countries of South America, but also Venezuela and Peru.

But six years later, Colombia's GDP has surpassed Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Cuba, Paraguay, and Ecuador, jumping to the seventh place in the Americas, behind the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the ABC of South America. In terms of average income, their per capita income is higher than that of Brazil and Mexico.

As a result, Uribe was warmly worshipped by the people and his position was very secure. But Cheng also Xiao He defeated Xiao He, because his father died at the hands of the guerrillas, and his thinking was Western, so his attitude towards the guerrillas has always been extremely hard. Suffice it to say, he has been the biggest obstacle in the peace talks.

Zhou You had not really been involved in their peace talks before, after all, he was just an outsider and an individual, and he did not have too high a political status.

Although he intervened a few times, he has always been outside the peace talks. Uribe also pretended not to know about it, and never discussed the topic with Zhou You.

But now, Zhou You came directly to the presidential palace with the guerrillas this time, and the matter was about to be revealed. Now it depends on whether Zhou You's face is big enough, and whether Uribe is willing to give in.

Uribe knows very well that although Colombia has developed rapidly in the past six years, this is not his greatest credit, because since 2002, or even since 2001, when he has not yet become president, the layout of traveling around Colombia is the main reason for Colombia's economic take-off.

In the past six years, more than 50,000 new large and small enterprises and companies have been opened in Colombia, all of which are based on the overall development of the company and its investment.

It can be said that the development of Colombia, Zhou Travel is a well-deserved first contributor.

In addition to traveling, Uribe is also feeling increasing pressure in Congress, where Betancourt, his rival for the presidency, disappeared from Colombian politics after being kidnapped by guerrillas.

Although she suffered all kinds of humiliation during her abduction by the guerrillas, after her release, she still put aside her personal honor and disgrace and actively participated in peace talks, and now, she has become the brightest rising star in Colombian politics and has many supporters in Congress.

Peace talks are the trend of the times, and even the U.S. government is now powerless. George W. Bush Jr. visited South America some time ago, but given the overall leftist situation in South America, his visit can be regarded as a futile.

He can continue to fight against the guerrillas, but he can't fight against the general trend, and he will only break himself to pieces.

Zhou You had the intention of forcing the palace a little bit this time, but he didn't make a big fuss, and he didn't even take this matter to the parliament for a vote first, which just gave him a step. Because in Colombia's Congress, there are definitely more supporters than any politician. With the exception of a few U.S. spokesmen, 95 percent of the congressmen expressed their gratitude to Zhou You.

If Zhou You is willing to become a Colombian citizen and then run for president, Uribe is confident that no one can compete with him, and he will be elected with a large number of votes. Because there is no one who is grateful and revered by the citizens of a country, only Zhou Yu has done this.

Not only Colombia, but also several other countries in South America are now very famous, because he is the one who leads the people of South America to prosperity, and he can clearly feel the change.

Around these thirteen differences, Zhou You and Uribe had an open and honest conversation, Marulanda wanted to complete the cause of peace before his death, and made a lot of concessions, and Uribe was not able to continue the stalemate, and agreed to make some concessions.

Although there are still some differences between the two sides on the mode of administration, the conditional laying down of arms, the division of spheres of influence, and the recovery of past crimes, these aspects remain.

The effect of this meeting was positive, both sides made concessions, and peace came to light.

In the evening of the same day, he traveled around his company's South American headquarters and met with Betancourt, who had now regained his feminine style. It was at this time that Zhou You learned a secret, that the reason why Betancourt was so active in promoting peace talks was not only because it was her ideal, but also because she fell in love with Botero, a hawk figure in the guerrillas.

A hostage, in love with her bandits, well, it's a bit bloody, but it's true. From this point, you can also feel the romantic ideas and "unreliability" of French women.

However, this episode did not hinder the peace talks, but instead became a lubricant to promote the peace talks, so the tour was only interesting.

On 9 July, Zhou You left Colombia and returned to the training base in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where 400 soldiers from Singapore, most of them were air force members, and only a small number were forest special operations troops.

In Bogotá, the Colombian government once again announced that the Colombian peace talks had once again begun, and this time the venue for the talks was still set in Paris, France.