The former president of Colombia and Nobel Peace PrizeJuan Manuel Santos, said that he gives his full support to the president-elect of that country, Gustavo Petro, in his proposals for peace and restorative justice.
“I support 100% the new president of Colombia in his determination to implement the peace process and have the Special Justice for Peace as a model for the pacification of the country,” Santos said in an interview published this Friday by the Brazilian newspaper. Leaf of Sao Paulo.
Santos’s words are in reference to Petro’s public speech, who repeatedly assured that he wants to resume Santos’ peace plan.
He assured that the plan includes everything from fully implementing the agreement signed with the FARCuntil resuming negotiations with the ELN, the second largest guerrilla group in the country, interrupted four years ago after the arrival of Iván Duque to power.
“If someone opposes the agreements, I know that he will be there at the forefront, the Agrarian Reform is one of the first issues of the peace agreement,” Santos said.
Likewise, he considered that if Petro and his administration “apply the agreement well, his government will generate a transformation and Petro knows it.”
campaign for peace
Additionally, Santos mentioned that together with the former Brazilian president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, they are making a world campaign to end the prohibition of the commercialization of drugs. This was one of his management proposals for which he was heavily criticized.
“They said he wanted to poison the children. But that’s what the United States did when it legalized alcohol. It’s possible,” she assured.
