The International Center of Fairs and Conventions of San Salvador on October 2008, the place of the 18th Ibero-American Summit. Photo Wikimedia Commons.
“It is necessary military action against the guerrilla,” said the former hostess of Farc, Ingrid Betancourt in her visit to Bolivia. “The guerrilla is completely back to the Colombian reality“, “They became a drug cartel“, “They lost their ideologies and their leaders became bourgeois due to the benefits of the drug traffic“, were the words of Betancourt to the Bolivian press.
Picture by Fabio Gismondi.
When the door is closed, God opens the window
“The Yes of the President is the answer to a national and international call” (Mgr. Castro, President of the Colombian Conference of Bishops)
“The Farc must answer in a constructive form” (Nicaolas Sarkozy, President of France)
“The government waits the biggest surrounding of guerrilla troops of the history of the Farc” (Caracol Broadcasting citing Frank Pearl, top presidential councilor.)
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Bogotá – ColPas. Nobody can predict President Uribe. He uses to be at the center of hot critics from opponents inside and outside Colombia, object of admiration by many others and expectations by those who follow with care the long Colombian conflict. Apart of any kind of hot position at his side or against him, true is that Uribe has been the most influential Colombian president of his country and the region in the last 50 years, the same time the modern Colombian conflict has taken its place in history. A man of strong decisions based in history, with any fear to face journalists, political opponents and even other international leaders, Uribe amazed many with his last decision to say Yes to the proposal of the Colombian Catholic Church to open a zone in order to facilitate the so waited human interchange.
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