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Former Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos speaks at a podium July 26, 2016 in Medellín, Colombia. Opinion Columnist Santiago Montañez Bertoletti witnessed the fight for Santos’ peace process with the guerrilla group FARC in the 2010s, which required the willpower of the people to achieve. (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

Fight for peace

By Santiago Montañez Bertoletti, Opinion Columnist | October 6, 2024

For decades, a guerrilla group known as FARC-EP, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia or the People’s Army, terrorized Colombia. I was born in 2003, at the height of the conflict, when the FARC and paramilitaries reached the pinnacle of their...