Topic: Eduardo Santos

Colombia's new leader offers talks to Venezuela

AFP Global Edition - 555 days ago
Colombia's new president has offered an olive branch to Venezuela, assuring the neighboring country that "war" was not part of his vocabulary and he was ready for talks to patch up their rift.His Venezuelan counterpart responded immediately by offering a ...

Colombia's new leader offers talks to Venezuela, FARC

AFP Global Edition - 556 days ago
Juan Manuel Santos was sworn in as Colombia's new president and immediately offered talks to heal a diplomatic rift with Venezuela, and to end 40 years of FARC rebel warfare provided they first disarm.Santos, 58, is the chosen successor of ...

Colombia's new leader offers talks to Venezuela, FARC rebels

AFP Global Edition - 556 days ago
Juan Manuel Santos was sworn in as Colombia's new president Saturday and immediately offered talks to heal a diplomatic rift with Venezuela, and to end 40 years of FARC rebel warfare provided they first disarm.Santos, 58, is the chosen successor ...

Colombia's new president vows to continue Uribe's policies

AFP Global Edition - 556 days ago
Juan Manuel Santos takes over as Colombia's new president Saturday, with promises to improve the economy and maintain the hardline policies against leftist guerrillas of his wildly popular predecessor.Santos, 58, is the chosen successor of conservative President Alvaro Uribe, who ...

Juan Manuel Santos

The Encyclopedia Britannica - 573 days ago
), Colombian politician who cofounded (2005) the Social Party of National Unity (Partido Social de Unidad Nacional, or Partido de la U) and who later served as president of Colombia (2010- ).. His great-uncle Eduardo Santos Montejo was Colombia's president from 1938 to ...

Ex-defense chief wins Colombia runoff in rout

AP News - 604 days ago
Ex-defense minister routs Green Party maverick in Colombia presidential runoffA former defense minister from a powerful political clan who oversaw a major weakening of leftist rebels won Colombia's presidency Sunday, routing an eccentric outsider in a runoff.The victory for Juan ...

Eduardo Santos Montejo

The Encyclopedia Britannica - 921 days ago
Santos earned a doctorate of law at the National University in 1908 and pursued further studies in Paris. He acquired the Bogota daily newspaper El Tiempo in 1913, and he became active in Liberal Party politics in 1917. After his term expired ...