How Santos sidelined Uribe to push Colombia peace process forward
How Santos sidelined Uribe to push Colombia peace process forward
written by Adriaan Alsema October 21, 2016
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos on Thursday sidelined his main political adversary, former President Alvaro Uribe, in efforts to revive a peace deal with the country’s largest rebel group, the FARC.
The party of the former head of state led the campaign that successfully but barely sank the already signed peace deal in an October 2 referendum.
The electoral shock came after years of resistance by Uribe to the talks leading up to the agreement.
Santos’ divide and conquer strategy
The referendum result put the country’s ongoing peace process on hold and forced Santos to immediately negotiate changes to the deal with those who had promoted a “No” vote.
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