A Colombian politician, Juan Manuel Santos, has a net worth of $2 million.
In Bogotá, Colombia, on August 10, 1951, Juan Manuel Santos (Calderón) was born.
Since 2010, he has been the President of Colombia.
From 2006-09, he held the position of Minister of Defense.
Santos, a journalist and economist, is a member of the influential Santos family, who held the majority shares of El Tiempo from 1913 to 2007.
The former Vice President of Colombia, Francisco Santos Calderón, is the first cousin of Santos, who attended the London School of Economics and Political Science shortly after graduating from the University of Kansas.
During the administration of President lvaro Uribe Vélez, Santos rose to prominence.
The Social Party of National Unity, a liberal-conservative party alliance that supported President Uribe’s policies, was co-founded and led by him in 2005.
Following Uribe’s re-election in 2006, Santos was appointed as the Minister of National Defense and continued to defend President Uribe’s security initiatives, taking a strong and aggressive stance against FARC and other guerrilla fighters in Colombia.
He was in charge of Operation Jaque, which involved the rescue of former presidential candidate ngrid Betancourt, three American citizens, and 11 other members of the Colombian Army that had been held for several years.
Despite being widely regarded as the heroic rescue that earned Santos widespread admiration, it was also criticized for appropriating emblems of the International Red Cross, a breach of the Geneva Conventions.