We all want peace,” he said in a subdued five-minute speech in the wake up of the ballot.
GUILLERMO LEGARIA AFPBut the former leader’s key message during the lead-up to the plebiscite – he criticized the peace deal because it would offer impunity to FARC members who recognized their crimes – seems to have tapped into the deep distrust many Colombians feel when it comes to the guerrilla group.
The international community saw it as a continuation of the toxic confrontational style that had made the former leader so popular in the first place.
Uribe’s decision to take up the cause of the ‘no’ camp was not enough to defend at first.
“You can stay calm, and be confident because we want the peace process to move forward,” he said.
Fuente: http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/10/03/inenglish/1475492639_385951.html
