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Weekly Report - 24 July 2014 (WR-14-29)

Santos and Uribe face off as Colombia’s congress opens

“I don’t think for one moment that those who didn’t back my candidacy are against peace, of course they want it; there is no Colombian in their right mind who doesn’t want it.” These words were delivered by Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos, while staring fixedly at Senator Alvaro Uribe, his presidential predecessor (2002-2010), in a speech to mark the opening of the new congress on 20 July.

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