Colombia is applauded for the efforts that we continue to make to combat drug trafficking.

To make peace, it is necessary to know how to make war.

No one, no one has hit the FARC harder than I have.

I fight terrorism as if there was no peace process, and I negotiate the peace process as if there was no terrorism.

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.

The notion that you do not negotiate with terrorists is not the history of humanity or of the world.

Europe would be well advised to pay more attention to Latin America. The emerging economies are the engines of the global economy. Colombia has done too little to improve its reputation in Europe.