(28 Feb 2002)
1. Colombian Presidential Candidate, Noemi Sanin walking near US Capitol
2. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Noemi Sanin, Colombian Presidential Candidate:
"To fight against terrorism and drug smuggling requires a firm, strong state, not a dictatorship, an adequate legislation, a judicial apparatus to fight impunity and also, one has to know that wars are not won militarily, they are won here (pointing to her head). We have almost 20 percent unemployment, two million displaced citizens. We are proposing an economic reactivation on a large scale, asking the world to buy our products. We have 500 thousand families living from coffee, when coffee prices are the lowest price in history; and then there is "dumping" in Asia, in Vietnam. The price of coffee has nothing to do with the cost to harvest it. By buying Colombian, by supporting us in investment, is a way to help us combat terrorism, drug smuggling. This in addition to the help of equipment, intelligence, advice. A foreign military intervention in Colombia, for God's sake, is absurd. "
3. Cutaway Sanin
4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Noemi Sanin, Colombian Presidential Candidate:
"We cannot be so naive to think that the Americans will send their boys to Colombia's geography to defend Colombia. This is not realistic, nor is it good. We have to be able to defend the country, obviously, with all the necessary support."
5. Cutaway Sanin
6. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Noemi Sanin, Colombian Presidential Candidate:
"If I was not sure I was going to be President, I would have never entered into this campaign which means so much risk, so much danger. We represent the centre (political) in Colombia. We are not polarized with the paramilitary groups, which are totally illegal, equally dangerous as the guerrillas, also terrorists; nor are we with the guerrillas, or the left. We are the centre looking for what the nation needs: democracy, progress, social equality. The leading sector has to reform itself, not have to wait for social pressures to come from the guerrillas. We want reforms to find peace. We don't agree that peace needs to be signed with the guerrillas before implementing the reforms. The reforms need to be made in a democratic way because they are urgent. We don't want people to feel excluded, without a chance for education and health, things that should not be privileges for a few, but rights for all. And of course, work, we have too many unemployed in Colombia and economic growth is not sufficient to resolve these difficulties."
7. Cutaway
8. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Noemi Sanin, Colombian Presidential Candidate:
"The President of the United States is right, he has to adhere to the law. Now, I've been talking with many members of Congress, with Senators and Representatives and their opinions are divided. Some think they should only support us in the fight against drugs and others who clearly see that terrorism is financed by narcotics."
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STORYLINE:
One of Colombia's presidential candidates was in Washington on Thursday to explain the current crisis in Colombia and to outline her plan to move the Andean nation forward.
Former Colombian Foreign Minister, Noemi Sanin, is now running to become Colombia's next President.
In and interview with APTN, Sanin said that Colombia needs the help of the US and all other nations in the Americas in its fight against terrorism.
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