Security remains key issue in Colombia: Santos

Santos the wave of strikes in the country and said many of them were motivated by “political interests.”

“[There is] a deliberate action to promote strikes of this type, we see political interests, interests of all types trying to take advantage of situations, some of them are justified, some sectors [have] problems, but effectively there is a deliberate action to stimulate the strikes in the [entire] country,” said the president, while praising the Cerrejon coal miners’ decision to lift the month-long strike.

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