Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos delivers a speech after receiving the Forum Nueva Economia award in Madrid, Spain December 14, 2016. REUTERS/Andrea Comas
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos and right-wing opposition leader Alvaro Uribe will meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Friday, in a bid to build consensus on a peace deal with the Andean country's Marxist FARC rebels, the government said.
Uribe, a former president and current senator, has been the deal's harshest critic, arguing penalties for human rights violations by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels are not stiff enough.
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