Manuel Santos

Juan Manuel Santos Calderón is a Colombian politician and economist. Born on August 10, 1951, he served as the President of Colombia from 2010 to 2018. Santos comes from the influential Santos family, known for their majority ownership of El Tiempo, a prominent Colombian newspaper. He started his political career in 1991, when he was appointed as Colombia's first Minister of Foreign Trade by President César Gaviria Trujillo. Later, in 2000, he became the Minister of Finance and Public Credit under President Andrés Pastrana Arango. Santos gained prominence during the administration of President Álvaro Uribe Vélez and co-founded the Social Party of National Unity, a political coalition supporting Uribe's policies.More