With US-backed president-elect Abelardo de la Espriella replacing Petro on Friday, however, the agreement's future hangs in the balance. Aizama, 24, who spoke to AFP from a special zone for ex-guerrillas in the southern Putumayo region, said she felt unsafe. Ex-guerrilla Darwin, who declined to share his surname, noted that De la Espriella has given combatants until Friday to hand themselves in, or face "death or prison." De la Espriella "made some very drastic comments" when he won, Zambrano said. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementInternational humanitarian law protects the ex-guerrillas as "subjects in a state of defenselessness," Novoa said.