The former Colombian president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Juan Manuel Santos, has come out in defense of the peace agreement signed almost a decade ago with the FARC, while also criticizing the way the current head of state, Abelardo De la Espriella, is acting, whom he has denounced for “walking around among corpses.”
“Ten years later we are seeing a president walking around among corpses, showing them off with pride or signing bombs as if they were a gift. I hope that does not send a message to go back to the past,” the former head of state said during his appearance at a forum held in Bogotá.
In his address, Santos questioned the idea that the success of military operations is evaluated based on the number of deaths, and he has expressed his rejection of the style and messages that the new president is putting out.
“A culture that caused the phenomenon of the false positives, where the number of corpses was what determined the success or failure of an officer. That had to be changed, and we initiated an entire process of changing the culture,” he recalled, asserting the direction that his Government took and that led to the signing of a peace agreement considered historic now ten years ago.
Santos has reiterated his call for the agreement reached with the FARC to be fully carried out and has once again criticized the position of the current Executive, accusing it of acting “for ideological and political reasons without any logic and against common sense” against implementation of the agreement.