You only can rest when have the truth, even when it's horrible.

Reconciliation is a national decision that has to be debated and a consensus made among Colombians.

Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.

We're humans. Why always turn human attitude into political behaviours? I hate that.

I didn't want to accept that people would forget me, that the government wouldn't do anything to negotiate our freedom. After a year, I came to understand that not only had one year passed, many more would come.

At first, I didn't want to accept that I had been abducted. I kept thinking, 'Next week, I'll be freed.'

I called my party the Green Oxygen party because Colombians were choking.

I studied political science at the Ecole de Sciences Politiques in Paris.

As a Colombian, the only way I can relate to my country is through suffering. I hope that my children and my grandchildren will relate to the beautiful country in a way that it is positive and loving.

Sometimes you need other people to embody situations so that you can talk about things that for you are important. And I think that being able to hope for the future is what builds in us the strength to just get rid of things that, in the past, can hurt.