Ninety-nine guerrilla fighters who surrendered their weapons in southern Colombia in June now face an uncertain legal fate after a change in government swept away the peace framework under which they disarmed. The group, drawn from the Commandos of the Frontier — part of a broader armed network that controls Colombia's border with Ecuador — handed over rifles, pistols and grenade launchers just days before a presidential runoff won by far-right lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella, who had campaigned on scrapping his predecessor Gustavo Petro's "total peace" negotiation strategy. Confined to a government-monitored transition zone, the former combatants are protected only by a decree that expires on 25 December and could be revoked at any time, leaving them, in the words of one resident, "in limbo" — with no legal amnesty framework in place and the new administration yet to announce any policy toward them.