We must rebuild Colombia, starting with ourselves, our hearts, put resentment aside, put hatred aside, put envy aside. The only thing that those attitudes accomplish is to sow violence and sow death and suffering.
We have had this happen in the past, right in Colombia: there were amnesties for everybody, guerrilla members were elected mayors, senators. Today there are senators who are - who were previously guerrillas.
The Bolivarian revolution has no future and it has shown a lack of results.
When you have another person take part in the interview, you must notify the interviewee.
No one, no one has hit the FARC harder than I have.
The fight against drug trafficking by the Colombian government has been present, and the Americans themselves are the first to recognize that.
If you analyze the production of coca in Colombia, you will realize that it is like economic cycles. It goes up and down, it goes up and down depending on the circumstances.
Colombia is applauded for the efforts that we continue to make to combat drug trafficking.
The notion that you do not negotiate with terrorists is not the history of humanity or of the world.
To make peace, it is necessary to know how to make war.
In any symmetrical war in today's world, it is necessary to have regional support.
A perfect peace is not possible; it doesn't exist.
Colombians do not like the FARC. In fact, 95 percent reject the FARC.
One doesn't make peace with one's friends. One makes peace with one's enemies.
At this moment, I don't think people would back the old-fashioned Marxist-Leninist ideas of FARC. But I do hope that the rebels will continue to pursue their agenda by legal means and not through violence.
I want to see Colombian youth become the best-educated in Latin America by 2025.
Social housing, education, health, jobs and sustainable surroundings. Those are my priorities.
For many years, they said the drug lords in Colombia were unbeatable, but all the same, we've eliminated all the big capos (as the drug lords are called in Colombia). The homicide rate is as low as it was 40 years ago and the kidnapping rate has dropped to the level of 1964. Now we'll be able to bring down the street criminals specializing in extortion and robbery.
It was shameful that, after Haiti, Colombia was the second most unequal country in Latin America. But we've achieved some things; the inequality is coming down, and coming down fast. The growing economy has provided us with the funds to finance a very progressive social policy that has reduced extreme poverty. We have the lowest inflation rate of all Latin-America countries and the highest growth rate.
Colombia has a big market that is growing because we are elevating people out of poverty and into the middle class.
If we are giving judicial benefits to one part, we should give them to the other part as well.
Colombia is a different country today. The state is now present in every single corner, the drug lords are in jail or dead. So we have the means to guarantee the security of FARC politicians.
I have the complete support of the military. I personally served in the navy.
More than 70 percent of Colombians want peace. The rest are afraid of the price to be paid. But even they will realize that their worst fears will not come true. I'm quite optimistic that Colombians do back an agreement with the FARC.
Waging war is much more popular than negotiating, because there you need to compromise.
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