Colombia Rejects Campaign against Peace Promoted by Right-Wing
Colombia Rejects Campaign against Peace Promoted by Right-Wing
Bogota May 11 (Prensa Latina) Human rights defenders, parliamentarians, social and political organizations today rejected a campaign promoted by the Colombian right against the peace process.
The recent call made by former President Alvaro Uribe to promote a civil resistance movement against the agreements reached in Cuba by the Government and the FARC-EP has caused a wave of criticism among supporters of the process, lawmakers, left-wing leaders and spokesmen from the National Government.
According to the Minister OF Interior, Juan Fernando Cristo, Uribe and his followers are preparing to ignore the results of the plebiscite, which is the mechanism provided by the executive to validate the agreements signed in the Cuban capital between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia- People's army (FARC-EP) and the Government.
The President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, said today in London at the opening of a business meeting, that the end of the war in Colombia is near and doors will open to new business opportunities.
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