Q You spoke to The Banker this May, before your re-election, and were hopeful that a final peace agreement with the FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, was in sight. Do you still hold this view?A I am not the only one who is hopeful. All Colombians have good reason to believe that after 50 years of war, we can finally end this conflict. Never before have we made it this far in negotiations with the FARC. There is already an agreement on three of the five points on the agenda. The first deals with rural development, and will enable us to change forever the history of our farmlands. It will also allow us to make the investments that have long been needed but that we were unable to make, or that were ineffective due to the conflict itself. The second point deals with political participation, which is... deepening our democracy and trading 'bullets for votes'. And for the third point, we have agreed upon deals regarding the drug problem.
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