For two decades Alvaro Uribe has been
at the very heart of Colombian politics,
firstly as the country's president
for eight years until 2010 and then as a senator
and as the standard bearer for the Colombian right.
He led the campaign against the 2016 peace agreement
with the Farc, saying it was too generous
to the Marxist guerrillas.
In 2018 he was instrumental in propelling
Colombia's current leader Ivan Duque into the presidency.
Even now, Mr Uribe is arguably the most influential politician
in the country, loved and hated alike.
His supporters regard him as the man
who took the fight to the Farc.
His detractors want him behind bars accusing him
of links with right wing paramilitaries.
The FT's Latin American editor, Michael Stott,
and I spoke to Mr Uribe from his wife's family
ranch near Medellin.
We asked him about the state of Colombia
and its fractious relationship with neighbouring Venezuela.