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When I was defense minister, I was very popular, and now that I'm president, I'm unpopular because I'm trying to make peace. It's much easier to make war and get trophies.

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There have been many examples in the world of people doing crazy things because they want to keep war going.

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Simply to have peace brings huge investment.

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I am a believer in free trade, fair free trade.

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We want to be a country with a competitive edge in the world. And a country with a solid democracy. To do that, we need to attack the social problems, and extreme poverty is probably the worst of those.

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People in the U.K. don't imagine what it is to live in extreme poverty here in Colombia or anywhere in the so-called Third World.

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I think that we are trying to move towards the First World slowly but surely. But we must do a good job for the people left way behind. That's why extreme poverty, for us, is a priority.

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My ideal - and here, the sky is the limit - is to attract foreign investment via concessions.

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That has been the concept to my life - setting very high objectives and trying to fulfil them.

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If you go around Colombia or Latin America, without doubt you will find that 80 per cent of the time, you're discussing the past and only 20 per cent about the future.

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Biography

Nationality: Colombian

Type: Politician

Born: August 10th, 1951

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