A so called socialist president supported by the leftists, said that Colombia does not need socialism, therefore, he is going to run capitalism. As Fidel Castro said in 1960 that he was not a communist, and then he made alliance with the Soviet Union and in a few months he became a Leninist, and that Cuba was socialist
He was a member of a guerrillas groups, but members of the FARC continue being killed under his government despite the fact that they signed a peace agreement with the government of Juan Manuel Santos