Juan Manuel Santos Calderón (born in Bogotá on 10 August 1951) is a politician, Colombian journalist and economist. He founded the Party of the U and Colombia's Defense Minister during the government of President Alvaro Uribe from July 2006 until May 2009. Santos is one of the candidates in Colombia's presidential elections of 2010.
Juan Manuel Santos studied Economics and Business Administration at the University of Kansas, USA. Then he obtained a Master in Economics and Economic Development London School of Economics and Master in Public Administration from Harvard University.
He also received fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. He has been awarded an honorary doctorate in Law.
Just received his undergraduate degree, Santos joined the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia (1972) and accounted for nine years before the International Coffee Organization in London. In 1981 he returned to his country and assumed as deputy director of El Tiempo, positioned as one of the most influential members of his generation in the Santos family.
In 1999 presented his book The Third Way: an alternative for Colombia, which was assisted by the then British Prime Minister Tony Blair. In 2009 published Check to Terror: the dreadful years of the FARC (Planeta, 2009), describes work in which, as a chronicle, the harsh blows to the guerrilla organization for almost three years he spent as head of the Ministry Defense. This book was prefaced by the Mexican intellectual and writer Carlos Fuentes. [8]
Juan Manuel Santos was appointed Minister of Foreign Trade during the tenure of César Gaviria in 1991, this newly created office, in 1993 he was elected by the Senate as the Chair Designate of the Republic, the last person to hold that office, as a year later was replaced by the vice-presidency. Between 1995 and 1997 was part of the triumvirate that led the Colombian Liberal Party, retiring to present his pre candidacy for the presidency, but these intentions do not come to fruition. In 2000 he was appointed Minister of Finance and Public Credit, for the end of the mandate of Andres Pastrana.
Santos said that aspire to the presidency of Colombia in 2010, he said, if President Álvaro Uribe does not if the approval of a referendum that would allow him to exercise the office of President for the third time. Right after it was known that the referendum is unconstitutional reelection, Santos announced his presidential aspirations for the period 2010-2014.
Juan Manuel Santos studied Economics and Business Administration at the University of Kansas, USA. Then he obtained a Master in Economics and Economic Development London School of Economics and Master in Public Administration from Harvard University.
He also received fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. He has been awarded an honorary doctorate in Law.
Just received his undergraduate degree, Santos joined the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia (1972) and accounted for nine years before the International Coffee Organization in London. In 1981 he returned to his country and assumed as deputy director of El Tiempo, positioned as one of the most influential members of his generation in the Santos family.
In 1999 presented his book The Third Way: an alternative for Colombia, which was assisted by the then British Prime Minister Tony Blair. In 2009 published Check to Terror: the dreadful years of the FARC (Planeta, 2009), describes work in which, as a chronicle, the harsh blows to the guerrilla organization for almost three years he spent as head of the Ministry Defense. This book was prefaced by the Mexican intellectual and writer Carlos Fuentes. [8]
Juan Manuel Santos was appointed Minister of Foreign Trade during the tenure of César Gaviria in 1991, this newly created office, in 1993 he was elected by the Senate as the Chair Designate of the Republic, the last person to hold that office, as a year later was replaced by the vice-presidency. Between 1995 and 1997 was part of the triumvirate that led the Colombian Liberal Party, retiring to present his pre candidacy for the presidency, but these intentions do not come to fruition. In 2000 he was appointed Minister of Finance and Public Credit, for the end of the mandate of Andres Pastrana.
Santos said that aspire to the presidency of Colombia in 2010, he said, if President Álvaro Uribe does not if the approval of a referendum that would allow him to exercise the office of President for the third time. Right after it was known that the referendum is unconstitutional reelection, Santos announced his presidential aspirations for the period 2010-2014.
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