“each centimetre of the country would have a military presence”
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Juan Manuel Santos
Juan Manuel Santos Calderón is a Colombian politician who was the President of Colombia from 2010 to 2018. He was the sole recipient of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize.
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culture · President of Colombia from 2010 to 2018 · politician · journalist · economist · lawyer · also Juan Manuel Santos, Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, Santos
Born 10 August 1951 · Q57311
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2026· 8 entries
“learned from the mistakes committed in the past”
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“Both the people here and the people in Israel have been seeking peace for decades,”
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Semana: Abelardo De La Espriella no se quedó callado y le respondió a Juan Manuel Santos con contundente mensaje: “Se burló de la democracia”
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Vanguardia: Abelardo De La Espriella excluye a Juan Manuel Santos y Ernesto Samper de su posesión
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La FM: Juan Manuel Santos pide a Abelardo de la Espriella cumplir el acuerdo de paz y no modificar la JEP
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Portafolio: Juan Manuel Santos pide a Abelardo de La Espriella retomar la implementación del Acuerdo de Paz
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Vanguardia: ¿Qué dijo Juan Manuel Santos sobre su voto en la segunda vuelta presidencial?
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2025· 5 entries
El Nuevo Herald: Juan Manuel Santos: En el conflicto entre EEUU y Colombia gana el crimen organizado
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Infobae: Nuevo enfrentamiento entre el expresidente Juan Manuel Santos y De la Espriella: “Me gustaba más el Abelardo de antes”
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Yahoo Noticias en Español: Juan Manuel Santos pide en la ONU adoptar una postura más firme contra la guerra en Gaza
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Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Lleida (2025).
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Yahoo Noticias en Español: Juan Manuel Santos: "Trump y Petro hicieron lo que no deberían hacer"
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2020· 8 entries
Published video “Celebré mi último 20 de Julio como presidente”.
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Published video “Asistí al tercer encuentro de Jóvenes de la Alianza del Pacífico”.
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Published video “Visité a los mamos de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta”.
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Published video “Ustedes son el pilar fundamental de una nueva Colombia por nacer”.
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Published video “Palabras del Presidente Juan Manuel Santos en el centenario del diario El Tiempo”.
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Published video “El trabajo de Santos por la educación. Santos Presidente”.
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Published video “Clara López se une a la Paz. Santos Presidente”.
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Published “Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 16,051 times.
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2018· 4 entries
Published video “#GraciasColombianos”.
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WRAL: Ocho polémicas de Juan Manuel Santos en ocho años frente al gobierno de Colombia
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Published video “Hacer posible lo imposible”.
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Published video “Con el fin del conflicto logramos #HacerPosibleLoImposible”.
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2017· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne (2017).
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Won Kew International Medal (2017).
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Trump raised the idea of a military invasion of Venezuela to drive out President Nicolas Maduro, which he and other Latin American leaders rejected at the time
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2016· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Peace — for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end.
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Awarded Nobel Peace Prize (2016).
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2015· 2 entries
Awarded Collar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (2015).
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Awarded Global Citizen Awards (2015).
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2014· 1 entry
Campaign: 2014 presidential election.
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2010· 3 entries
Was credited with strategic endorsements from left-wing politicians such as Clara López who appeared on a T
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Career landmark: President of Colombia (2010–2018).
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Santos won the presidential election as the protégé of Uribe
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2008· 1 entry
The 'false positives' scandal was uncovered, referring to revelations concerning extrajudicial executions carried out by members of the military in order to artificially increase the number of guerrillas killed by the Ar
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2006· 2 entries
Career landmark: Minister of Defense of Colombia (2006–2009).
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After Uribe's re-election, when the Party of the U won a majority of seats in the two chambers of Congress, Santos was appointed as Minister of National Defence, and continued defending the security policies of President
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2005· 1 entry
Santos co-founded and led the Social Party of National Unity (Party of the U), a liberal-conservative party coalition that backed the policies of President Uribe, successfully supporting his attempt to seek a constitutio
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2002· 1 entry
Through his father's brother, Hernando, and his mother's sister, Elena, Juan Manuel is also first cousin on both sides to Francisco Santos Calderón, former Vice President of Colombia during the previous administration from 2002 to 2010.
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2001· 1 entry
Published “Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome” in Nature — cited 18,636 times.
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2000· 2 entries
Was appointed by President Andrés Pastrana Arango as the 64th Minister of Finance and Public Credit
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Career landmark: Minister of Finance and Public Credit (2000–2002).
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1994· 1 entry
Juan Manuel Santos founded the Good Government Foundation, whose stated objective is helping and improving the governability and efficiency of the Colombian Government
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1992· 1 entry
Was appointed President of the VIII United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
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1991· 9 entries
“Como bien se ha dicho, la aprobación de la reforma constitucional que permite la reelección inmediata del Presidente cambia radicalmente el escenario político. Lo primero que hay que reconocer es que los contradictores de la reelección perdimos en franca lid. De nada sirve rasgarse las vestiduras, ni ponernos a llorar. En la democracia, como en la vida, hay que saber perder.”
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Santos was appointed by President César Gaviria Trujillo as Colombia's first Minister of Foreign Trade
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“¿Qué quiere decir un fujimorazo a la colombiana? Muy sencillo: hacer algo parecido a lo que hizo Fujimori para pacificar su país, sin romper el Estado de Derecho. (...) El presidente Samper responde que él no tiene esa solución en mente porque es respetuoso de la Constitución . Nadie sugirió irrespetar la Carta, y mucho menos que fuera nuestro Alan García quien liderara ese proceso.”
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“A Dios lo que es de Dios... y lo digo sin reatos: Pastrana tuvo el coraje y la entereza de no gobernar para las encuestas, como debe hacerlo todo buen estadista.”
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“[Antanas Mockus] ha mantenido dos valiosas constantes en su administración. La primera es que ha sido riguroso en la aplicación de los principios del buen gobierno. Y la segunda es que ha sido obsesivo en promover y mejorar la cultura ciudadana. Estos dos aspectos, a la larga, son tanto o más importantes que la buena gestión fiscal o la transformación física de la ciudad.”
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“A quienes no les gusta o les parece cruel una buena corrida o una buena pelea de gallos, la solución es muy sencilla: no vayan. Pero, qué tal la Feria de Cali sin toros o el Festival Vallenato sin gallos? ¡Y, por Dios!, no sigamos legislando como si viviéramos en Dinamarca.”
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“Base no va a haber en Colombia. Eso ya está descartado. Está descartado por parte de Estados Unidos, y está descartado por parte nuestra.”
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“Es una cuña, vuelvo y repito, que le pone picardía y alegría y humor a la campaña. [...] Los que están ofendidos son los antiuribistas. Es parte del juego porque le pone picardía y humor. [...] Cada persona hace su campaña como quiere.”
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“Si hubo cohecho o no hubo cohecho eso no invalida el número de votos que fueron depositados a favor de la corrupción... (digo) de la reelección.”
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1981· 1 entry
And a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1988, Santos also holds an honorary Doctor of Laws degree
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1973· 1 entry
With a Bachelor in Economics and Business Administration
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1969· 1 entry
And continuing in the Navy until 1971, finishing with the rank of naval cadet NA-42z 139
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1951· 1 entry
Born 1951-08-10.
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