Esperanza, Paz y Libertad is a Colombian political movement, resulting from the 1991 peace agreements between the Colombian government of Cesar Gaviria and the guerrillas of the People's Liberation Army. Although some of the guerrillas of the EPL have dissented by refusing to lay down their weapons, 2,500 of them agree to do so. The party thus created is besieged in the 1990s by attacks from other guerrillas such as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) or armed dissidence of the EPL commanded by Francisco Caraballo, culminating in the massacre of 37 demobilized guerrillas in La Chinita (Apartadó). Active especially in Urabá (Department of Antioquia, Esperanza Pay y Libertad had in the 1990s an important influence in Sintrainagro, a union of banana workers which gathered 12,000 workers, which passes in this period under the impetus of EPL d 'a trade unionism turned to confrontation with a consensus syndicalism with the bosses.The party also knows important success, conquering two municipalities of the department of Urabá in the municipal elections of 2000: that of Turbo (Aníbal Palacios) and Apartadó (Mario Agudelo) In addition, the movement manages to elect municipal councilors throughout the "banana axis", to elect a deputy, and his support has been decisive for the election of Guillermo Gaviria Correa (es As the governor of Antioquia, at the dawn of the 2000s, however, the movement was confronted with the persistent presence of illegal armed actors (guerrillas and paramilitaries). es) in areas where movement was present. change the code

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