Neither the government nor the FARC should break their promise that the eventual peace accord will involve some kind of citizen referendum, that is, that there will be an opportunity for citizens to express their approval or disapproval of the agreement. Indeed, they should take care to ensure there are no ambiguities about this point.

A couple of weeks ago I wrote an op-ed in which I talked about the two positions regarding the peace process: on one hand those that want to negotiate with a cool head, taming their hate in order to end the subversive cause; and, on the other hand, those that only want to destroy and kill the enemy.