“I am not interested in continuing to fight with you,” declared Santos, who was president of Colombia between 2010 and 2018.
Former Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos asked his predecessor, Álvaro Uribe, to stop fighting “like cats and dogs”, work to provide solutions to the problems that the country has and allow the emergence of new political leaderships.
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“(…) Keep fighting with you I am not interested and nobody is interested. The political strategy of fighting me no longer works for him. I invite you to change your verbal aggressions and civilized handling of our discrepancies, ”the public letter states.
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It also ensures that what matters to the country is resolve issues such as insecurity, poverty, and not seeing “two ex-presidents fighting like cats and dogs.”
Santos’ letter (2010-2018) to Uribe (2002-2010) is the response to a lawsuit filed against him and also against the Constitutional Court magistrate Alejandro Linares for alleged crimes such as omission of complaint and influence peddling, among others.
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I was not surprised by his latest criminal complaint. I am used to their false accusations and baseless attacks.
The former president of Colombia declared.
“(…) And fine, the list of infundios is endless, but in the most recent accusation where it says that I called the magistrates of the Court to deny the guardianship that you yourself filed, it will remain as another smokescreen for produce media effects”Says the letter.
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Uribe, who was Santos’s mentor, became a harsh critic of him as president because he did not agree to negotiate with the FARC guerrillas, dialogues that led to the peace agreement of November 2016 and that earned Santos the Nobel Peace Prize that year.
“We did what we could and now it is the turn of others. We would do a great service to Colombia if instead of giving so much trouble, we allow new leaders to emerge to face the problems of the country. We do not have to be friends, but we have an obligation not to attack each other”, Santos pointed out.
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The letter ends with a proposal to Uribe of a kind of truce as happened between former American presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, who they were political rivals but they united to defend the interests of their country.
“I invite you to follow suit of the presidents who precisely succeeded Washington: Adams and Jefferson. They both ruled one after the other, just like you and me. They were allies and then bitter rivals, like you and me. But before they died they had the intelligence to reconcile, to leave without hatred and in peace, “he stated in his letter. (I)
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