"The FARC is despised by the Colombian people who have a large need for vengeful justice, as the surveys consistently demonstrate," said Jorge Restrepo, Director of Conflict Analysis Institute, CERAC.
Date: Mar 14, 2018
Category: World
Source: Google
Political Crisis Looms in Colombia as Peace Deal Collapses
Jorge Restrepo, director of the CERAC research institution that monitors the conflict, said that the result was a heavy blow to Santos that will severely affect his ability to govern, but that he should be able to hold the ruling coalition together until he leaves office.
However, the ceasefire announcement will put new pressure on the Colombian government to respond in kind, said political scientist Jorge Restrepo, the head of the Conflict Analysis Resource Center in Colombia.
Date: Dec 17, 2014
Category: World
Source: Google
Zuluaga Wins Colombia First Round Vote to Face Santos in Runoff
Zuluaga will probably receive support from the majority ofthe 15.5 percent who voted in the first round for ConservativeParty candidate Marta Lucia Ramirez, said Jorge Restrepo,economics professor at Javeriana University in Bogota. Themajority of the 24 percent who voted either for the Alternati
The difficulties of operating under Hugo Chvezs revolution and his hostile policy against the private sector have hidden the economic impact of violence and crime, says Jorge Restrepo, an economics professor at Colombias Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. An adviser to a United Nations Developme
This trip is purely symbolic because most of the region's leaders already showed their support by attending Maduro's inauguration in Caracas despite Capriles' efforts to challenge the results, said Jorge Restrepo, who directs Colombia's Resource Center for the Analysis of Conflicts.
Date: May 08, 2013
Category: World
Source: Google
Why killing of Colombia FARC chief 'Alfonso Cano' may delay peace
The government strategy of "decapitation" or targeting the FARC'S top leadership has slowly killed off the leaders who had any sort of capacity to negotiate, says Jorge Restrepo, director of the Bogot-based Conflict Analysis and Resource Center.