Colombia was on the verge of ending one of the most violent civil wars in Latin America just slightly more than a month ago, when the deal was narrowly rejected by a voter referendum. President Juan Manuel Santos now faces the challenge of re-writing the deal to make it favorable to those who voted against it while still keeping it agreeable to FARC. Special correspondent Nadja Drost reports.
Month: October 2016
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos joins PBS NewsHour
When Colombian voters rejected a peace deal with FARC rebels, “I saw a country … divided in half,” President Juan Manuel Santos told special correspondent Nadja Drost for the PBS NewsHour. “I went out and recognized the result, which is what any president and any citizen should do.” He also told the NewsHour that time is the biggest challenge to getting a new peace deal.
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