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'Heavy Hand' Won't Bring Peace to Colombia: Nobel Laureate Santos

The South American country is the world's largest cocaine producer and is dealing with its worst levels of violence in a decade. President Abelardo de la Espriella, three months into the job, firmly opposes dialogue with armed groups and has vowed to send them all "to the grave or prison." Santos, who served as president from 2010 to 2018, oversaw the historic peace deal that led to the rebel army FARC laying down arms after decades of fighting.…

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Bogotá, Nov 11 (EFE).- Former Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos (2010-2018) said this Wednesday to the current president, the ultraright Abelardo de la Espriella, that the security of the country is not only recovered with a "hard hand" policy like the one he is carrying out, but also implementing the 2016 peace agreement. «Yes [...] La entrada Santos warns De la Espriella that security is not only recovered with "hard hand" was first publi…

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Separate zones of Colombia currently suffer the worst attack of the armed groups, against which the right-wing president De la Espriella launched an offensive under the slogan "tumba or jail." In power for three months, De la Espriella buried any possibility of dialogue with the armed groups. "If he wants to regain security, he needs to regain control of the territory (...) that is not done with a hard hand, bombing," Santos said in the presenta…

·Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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Radio France Internationale broke the news in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France on Wednesday, November 11, 2026.
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