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COLOMBIAN President Juan Manuel Santos was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday as he struggled to rescue the accord with the Farc liberation army.
Mr Santos dedicated the prize — previously awarded to warmonger Barack Obama and final apartheid-era South African president FW de Klerk — to the Colombian people: “Especially the millions of victims that have suffered in this war that we are on the verge of ending.”
“We are very, very close,” he claimed. “We just need to push a bit further to persevere.”
The disputed election of a far-right president, who is also a US citizen, signals further consolidation of Washington’s regional power and represents a threat to the country’s democracy and sovereignty, writes WT WHITNEY JNR
With Petro, Colombia has been making huge strides towards peace — but is all that at risk with the elections next year? MARK ROWE reports back after joining a delegation to the Latin American country
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA