Waging war is much more popular than negotiating, because there you need to compromise.

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

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.

At this moment, I don't think people would back the old-fashioned Marxist-Leninist ideas of FARC. But I do hope that the rebels will continue to pursue their agenda by legal means and not through violence.

You can't settle a 50-year conflict in 52 weeks.

Where do you draw the line between peace and justice? If you ask the victims, they want more justice; if you ask the potential victims, they want more peace.

A perfect peace is not possible; it doesn't exist.