Former president Álvaro Uribe of Colombia procured disapproval
of the peace deal with the FARC, using a campaign of false rumors.
Now he is
in
a position to block any new agreement.
The FARC were Colombia's second-worst gang of terrorists.
The
worst
gang, the
paramilitares,
had
links
with el Presidente Horrible. (as I called him — in Spanish,
"Horrible" sounds fairly similar to "Uribe").
The government signed a peace deal with the paramilitaries, who were
supposed to disband — but they
didn't
really do so.
Peace with the FARC might enable Colombia to put more pressure
on the paramilitaries to really disband, but not if Horrible has anything
to say about it.
While Horrible was president, Santos was the minister of false
positives; the troops that murdered civilians for no reason except to
produce corpses were under his control. I had a low opinion of him
for this and because he supported the business-supremacy treaty with
the US. However, I must acknowledge that he has sincerely tried to
make peace with the FARC, which would be an admirable achievement.
Santos just received the Nobel Peace Prize for these negotiations.
Some say that this might enable him to rescue the accord.