http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/20/world/americas/colombia-farc-juan-manuel-santos.html 2016-09-20 10:13:44 Colombia’s Leader Says Peace Deal Rests on People’s Ability to Forgive President Juan Manuel Santos cited challenges still to come ahead of a referendum on a deal that would end Latin America’s last major guerrilla conflict. === A half-century of civil war has deeply injured the psyche of Colombians, the country’s president said on Monday, weeks before a nationwide referendum on a peace deal that would end Latin America’s last major guerrilla conflict. “Making peace is much more difficult than making war because you need to change sentiments of people, people who have suffered, to try to persuade them to forgive,” the president, “Three generations of war have taken away from us our capacity to feel and suffer for other people,” he added. Colombians are scheduled to vote next month on The agreement, reached last month after The war in Mr. Santos said that all but low-level fighters would be held accountable. “We need to achieve the maximum justice possible but that would allow us peace,” he said. “I think we struck that equilibrium.” Mr. Santos said that “Unless they modernize their speech and modernize their mission, I don’t see much success in their political ideas,” he said. “But the whole purpose of this process is to allow them to try.”