{"id":37757,"date":"2018-06-17T23:13:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T21:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/37757-colombia-s-new-president-ivan-duque-is-an-anti-farc-hardliner.html"},"modified":"2018-06-17T23:13:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T21:13:01","slug":"colombia-s-new-president-ivan-duque-is-an-anti-farc-hardliner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/37757-colombia-s-new-president-ivan-duque-is-an-anti-farc-hardliner.html","title":{"rendered":"Colombia's new president Ivan Duque is an anti-FARC hardliner"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ivan Duque's election victory in Colombia makes him the youngest president in his country's modern history, and gives him a strong mandate to overhaul the government's fragile peace deal with the former rebel group FARC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

He campaigned on a ticket to rewrite the peace deal signed with the FARC by outgoing center-right president Juan Manuel Santos. His vanquished leftist opponent, Gustavo Petro, supports the deal.<\/p>\n

A lawyer with a degree in economics, Duque represents many Colombian voters who were outraged by concessions given to the former rebels, including reduced sentences for those who confessed to their crimes.<\/p>\n

He has vowed to make \"structural changes\" to the 2016 agreement, which led to the group's disarmament and conversion into a political party.<\/p>\n

\"What we Colombians want is that those who have committed crimes against humanity be punished by proportional penalties... so that there is no impunity,\" Duque told AFP during the campaign.<\/p>\n

He will succeed Santos on August 7, a few days after his 42nd birthday.<\/p>\n

Latin America's longest-running conflict left more than 260,000 people dead, nearly 83,000 missing and some 7.4 million forced from their homes.<\/p>\n

- Uribe puppet? -<\/h3>\n

Duque has railed against the Colombian left, voicing fears that it would drag the country into the same economic quagmire in which neighboring Venezuela is mired.<\/p>\n

The left in turn accuses him of being a puppet of Alvaro Uribe, the former two-term president who took a hard line against the left when he was last in power eight years ago.<\/p>\n

\"Nobody knows if he has his own criteria or if he will obey orders,\" Fabian Acuna, a political analyst at Cali's Javeriana University, said of Duque.<\/p>\n

Although a newcomer to politics -- he has been a senator since 2014 -- politics is in his blood.<\/p>\n

Born in Bogota on August 1, 1976, his father was a liberal politician.<\/p>\n

But it was Santos, the outgoing president, who took Duque under his wing in the 1990s as a financial advisor. Later, he worked for 13 years for the Washington-based Inter-American Development Bank.<\/p>\n

Today, Duque finds himself in opposition to Santos over the peace deal.<\/p>\n

\"He is very dynamic when it comes to public relations, very clever,\" said a former co-worker at the IDB.<\/p>\n

While working in the United States, Duque met Uribe, who persuaded him to run for the Senate.<\/p>\n

\"Ivan is very intelligent and I'm sure he has a bright future ahead of him,\" wrote Uribe in his 2012 book \"No Lost Causes.\"<\/p>\n

But for Roy Barreras, a senator from Santos's party, \"a president must have experience, autonomy, political capacity -- all missing with Ivan, who is, as everyone admits, a good little guy.\"<\/p>\n

A father of three, Duque used to play bass in a rock band, but his relaxed image contrasts sharply with his conservative ideals -- he is a staunch opponent of gay marriage, euthanasia and the decriminalization of drugs.<\/p>\n

He has strong support from the far-right as well as an increasingly influential evangelical Christian bloc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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