Colombia is a different country today. The state is now present in every single corner, the drug lords are in jail or dead. So we have the means to guarantee the security of FARC politicians.

I would never accept general impunity for the guerrillas!

The Bolivarian revolution has no future and it has shown a lack of results.

There are times for making war and times for making peace.

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

Democracy is like three oxen pulling a plough. The oxen are the independent powers, but you have to walk in the same direction; otherwise, you cannot plough and that is what was happening in Colombia. One ox was walking in one direction, the other in another direction, so the democracy was not working.

The Colombian economy is very strong. We have one of the highest rates of growth in Latin America.