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AP Interview: Colombian challenger tough on rebels

By LIBARDO CARDONAJOSHUA GOODMAN
Published June 4, 2014 4:00am ET
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AP Interview: Colombian challenger tough on rebels
Oscar Ivan Zuluaga, presidential candidate for the Democratic Center speaks during an interview with Associated Press in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, June 3, 2014. Zualuaga will face President Juan Manuel Santos, who is seeking a second four-year term as candidate of the Social Party of National Unity, in a presidential runoff on June 15. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara) | Fernando Vergara

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The conservative challenger in Colombia’s presidential runoff says he’ll take a tougher line with Marxist rebels in peace talks and end what he calls his rival’s “complicit silence” on the crackdown on dissidents in neighboring Venezuela.

In an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday, former Finance Minister Oscar Ivan Zuluaga repeated a pledge that if elected he’ll insist the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, declare a unilateral cease-fire among other conditions to continue talks started more than 18 months ago in Cuba.

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