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Former President Juan Manuel Santos has a very good relationship with Democrat Joe Biden, who as of this Wednesday will become the most powerful man on the planet. Such is the level of closeness that Santos is one of the few Colombians who received an invitation to his inauguration as the 46th president of the United States.
The information, released on Tuesday afternoon by Snail Radio, has awakened a wide movement in social networks. The media recalls that Biden was in Cartagena in 2016 as vice president of Barack Obama for the first signing of the Peace Agreement with the FARC.
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In fact, during the 2018 Concordia Americas Summit, in Bogotá, Biden urged President Iván Duque not to renounce the peace process with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) and praised the country’s determination to make progress.
“We envision a future with security, throughout the Western Hemisphere, there is no better place to start than with the determination of the Colombian people to establish a sustainable and lasting peace,” said Biden, adding that “the peace agreement was a great advance and should not be minimized or ignored. ”
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After that, he addressed Duque: “You are absolutely right, for more than five decades many have lost their loved ones, it is totally understandable that there are strong opinions on the matter in both parties regarding the agreement, but please don’t give up on the prospect of peace. ”
The now president-elect assured that in his experience observing negotiations he has seen that it is important to move “from negotiation to implementation” and that being able to adapt is necessary for peace to “be successful and sustainable.”
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