Ricardo Tellez the “foreign minister” of the FARC, accused Colombia’s former president Alvaro Uribe of “boycotting” the peace process.
The former president is the only one who is “boycotting” the negotiations between the FARC and the government of Juan Manuel Santos, complained Ricardo Tellez, the foreign minister for the FARC.
“The dialogues are supported by the U.S. the E.U., the Vatican, many countries, personalities of the movements associated with Colombia … the only one trying to put a spanner in the works is a small extreme right-wing movement led by former president Alvaro Uribe,” said Tellez in a telephone interview with newspaper La Tribune de Geneve.
Uribe has been very outspoken against the peace talks between the Colombian government and the country’s largest guerrilla group since before they were announced in August, slamming the government’s decision to “negotiate with terrorists” through media and on his Twitter account.
For Tellez the objective of these dialogues is “to lay down our weapons, but also above all to re-found our country which is the fourth most unequal in the world… we should reinvent Colombia, it is a very unjust country,” he said.