Peasant communities, Afro and Indigenous peoples, workers, women, youth, students, urban popular sectors, human rights defenders, and environmentalists, among others, have mobilized today on several highways and cities in the country. Their objective is to denounce the presence of paramilitary groups in the territories, the ongoing genocide, and the development of a counterinsurgency strategy against the people.

We demand that the national security doctrine be reformed, as it currently conceives popular movements and political opposition to the regime as internal enemies. Such a situation constitutes a strategic threat against the social and popular movement, particularly against our social and political movement, the Congreso de los Pueblos [Peoples' Congress], which is why we have declared ourselves in a humanitarian emergency since April 2019.

The national mobilisation serves to exercise the constitutional right to mobilisation and social protest, as well as the right to be heard and to present to the government, on behalf of the State, a list of demands for negotiations that reflects the feelings of the Colombian population.

1. The reform of the national security doctrine.

It is necessary to reform the doctrine of national security, which is currently based on the concept of an internal enemy, in order to create a new doctrine that respects human rights, the self-determination of peoples, and the sovereignty of states with a gender approach.
In addition, the new military doctrine must challenge the subordination of national security policy to the United States and European powers, and renounce NATO's status as a global partner.

2. The dismantling of paramilitarism.

The dismantling of paramilitarism will require the implementation of a series of simultaneous actions, which must be coordinated and executed with the requisite governmental political will and decision. It is essential to acknowledge that paramilitarism has been and continues to be a policy of the oligarchy, with the Colombian State playing a pivotal role in its implementation.

To achieve this, we therefore demand:

a) The government must acknowledge the existence of a national paramilitary strategy at the rural and urban levels, which is intended to commit genocide against the popular movement.

b) The government must immediately suspend any pretension of political recognition as a third actor of the paramilitary structures that claim to be engaged in regional, socio-legal, or political peace talks.

c) The government must dismantle the economic component of paramilitarism.

d) The government must investigate the state and private founders and promoters. It is recommended that periodic public reports on progress and results be provided.

e) It is further recommended that high- and mid-level commanders of the public security forces be removed and/or dismissed where there are complaints or evidence of collusion and a lack of effective action against paramilitarism.

f) The President of the Republic should issue a ministerial order to declassify the intelligence archives of the last 50 years. The publication of this material will allow the identification of officials, state entities, intelligence agencies, military personnel, politicians and businessmen involved in the formation, financing, instruction and support of paramilitarism.

g) Immediate compliance with all recommendations and rulings of the last three decades issued by international human rights organisations against the Colombian State. In particular, those related to overcoming impunity for state crimes.

h) The President of the Republic should immediately send a communication to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to reopen the preliminary examination of the situation in Colombia.

3. It is imperative to implement urgent protection and self-protection measures to defend life and maintain the integrity of the territories.

To neutralise the strategic threat posed by the Peoples' Congress, it is imperative to implement urgent measures to safeguard the survival of our movement and political proposal, the continuity of our leadership throughout the country, and the well-being of our communities.

a) Strengthening of self-protection mechanisms;

b) Immediate protection for threatened leaders of our social processes throughout the country;

c) Creation of a mechanism for investigation, action and follow-up, firstly, on state actions in the face of risk situations against the Peoples' Congress and secondly, on compliance with the CACEP agreement regarding the "immediate reaction chat";

d) Provision of means and communications infrastructure;

e) Construction, installation, and provision of shelters and humanitarian refuge in the following places: The regions of Northeastern Antioquia and Southern Bolívar, Cauca, Cundinamarca, Arauca, Cesar, Chocó, Cúcuta, Popayán, Bogotá, Barranquilla, Cali, Medellín, and Ibagué, as well as Bucaramanga, are included in this study.

4. A national plan to reinforce the People's Congress.
In order to defend our movement and its political proposal, it is necessary to strengthen our political action, organisational and administrative capacities. In general, we must also strengthen our own ways of acting in favour of the transformation of the country.

The following areas require strengthening:

5. An initial comprehensive reparation plan.

It is demanded that symbolic, political and material reparation measures be developed for individual and collective reparation measures. The reconstruction of memory, the implementation of an integral reparation plan for the A Luchar movement, the pursuit of justice and the recognition of the state's responsibility in the violation of human rights and breaches of international humanitarian law, the return to the territories, reconstruction, adaptation and provision of headquarters, the adjudication and titling of land, and the signing of the presidential decree of the Agro-food Peasant Territories and of the Mixed Commission on Peasant Affairs.

6.The establishment of a permanent dialogue commission for national negotiation is proposed.

In order to implement the agreements reached during the "National Mobilization for Life and Permanence in the Territories", it is necessary to establish a permanent table for national dialogue and negotiation. This can be achieved through the issuing of a presidential decree.
 
7.Guarantees for mobilization include the displacement of communities to and from the territories, the non-judicialization of the situation, the non-registration of the communities, and the provision of international accompaniment.

8. It is imperative that the aforementioned agreements are duly honored and that the mechanisms for dialogue and negotiation are reactivated in Chocó, Arauca, Cauca, Liza, the Human Rights Subcommission and the Single National Roundtable of the CACEP.