Colombia Quote by Juan Manuel Santos

For decades, Colombia has been accused of being the world's principal provider of cocaine. If this comes to an end, it would be a…

— Juan Manuel Santos

The actual consequences of Plan Colombia are to devastate peasant communities, which have been driven to drug production. These peasants have no particular desire…

— Noam Chomsky

Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.

— Barry McCaffrey

Today, aid to Colombia is given under the pretext of a drug war. That's pretty hard to take seriously. Ten years ago, Amnesty International…

— Noam Chomsky

The basic dream of many Colombians is to have a secure nation, without exclusions, with equity, and without hatred.

— Alvaro Uribe

We must rebuild Colombia, starting with ourselves, our hearts, put resentment aside, put hatred aside, put envy aside. The only thing that those attitudes…

— Juan Manuel Santos

What we have in Colombia is a war against the poor and the guerillas from the left side are against the poor.

— Ingrid Betancourt

Colombia is potentially a very wealthy country. It has tremendous resources, but its wealth is highly concentrated. Most of the population lives in misery,…

— Noam Chomsky

For many years, they said the drug lords in Colombia were unbeatable, but all the same, we've eliminated all the big capos (as the…

— Juan Manuel Santos

Colombia is a different country today. The state is now present in every single corner, the drug lords are in jail or dead. So…

— Juan Manuel Santos

I think [Pablo Escobar] wasted an incredibly opportunity which was when he stayed at the prison he made, La Catedral. It was the one…

— Juan Pablo Escobar

I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.

— Barbet Schroeder