Links between government officials and paramilitary groups were denounced that generated a huge scandal known as “parapoltiics” http://www.cipamericas.org/archives/2583

He is the security president – who undoubtedly confronted the insurgency with an iron fist. But he is also stained by the fact that his greatest hits signified the disappearance of millions of peasants, or were generated by false positives, or through the detention of social activists who were called “militants” in false testimonies.

He is the president who promoted investment, who brought foreign resources to the country that they never visited for fear of security problems. But the move did not exactly generate jobs (according to the latest data from the National Statistics Department, the unemployment rate rose to 12%), it only allowed multinational companies to get away with non-payment of taxes, while exploiting peasant, indigenous and Afro-colombian land as they pleased.