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Interview with Juan Manuel Santos

Madrid, Sep 15 (EFE)(Camera: Ramón Ayala).-Interview with Juan Manuel Santos.Translation:"I told President Duque: The best thing you can do to unite the country and solve structural issues is to implement the peace process. The issue of land. Colombia is the country with the worst distribution of land in the world. The issue of equity, poverty, drug trafficking, the political reform... It is all in the peace process, the peace deal. This government didn't take advantage of the opportunity. They moved forward a bit, I must admit, but more could have been done. What I want is for the next government to seize that flag (the deal), because it has it all. It's also a constitutional obligation. The peace deal is part of our constitution, backed by the international community in a manner we didn't have. So it has interesting opportunities.""One of the items, item 2 is about a series of mechanisms to guarantee security and it hasn't been successfully fulfilled and we are seeing the results. Former members of the FARC killed, social leaders who are looking to give back lands to workers who were displaced during the violence are being killed, promoters of the voluntary substitution of illicit crops in the program, which in my opinion the only way to solve the problem of drugs and illicit crops is to give farmers another choice."