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.

The fight against drug trafficking by the Colombian government has been present, and the Americans themselves are the first to recognize that.

Good friends don't have to visit each other every day.

I say this as the president of the country which has suffered more deaths, more blood and more sacrifices in this war.

I've not lived one single day of peace in Colombia, and 90 percent of people here say the same thing. We have gotten used to living in a war - we don't even react to massacres.

In any symmetrical war in today's world, it is necessary to have regional support.

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.