Before leaving the leadership of FIP, he published an article in the newspaper, El Tiempo, that analysed the impact of the pressure of losses and casualties within the FMM and its dangerous consequences.

His work focused on reporting false positives within the army, prompting the prosecutor's office to undertake the investigations of homicides and to exclude military justice.

There he led the creation of the group Amigos de La Macarena as a mechanism to draw bridges between private business and the policy of territorial consolidation.

In this position, he propelled the reactivation of the National Security Council where there was a special emphasis against the criminal bands (bacrim) and in the strengthening of the policy of territorial consolidation.

He was responsible for the secret negotiations that brought the approval of "the general agreement for the ending of conflict" between the Colombian government and the guerrilla warfare of the FARC in August 2012.

In June 2023, he was injured when two Russian ballistic missiles struck a dining café in Kramatorsk, Ukraine where he was meeting Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina, who later died as a result of her injuries.