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2008 In Colombia
The following lists events that happened during 2008 in Colombia. Incumbents * President: Álvaro Uribe Vélez * Vice President: Francisco Santos Calderón Events January * January 10 - FARC guerrillas release Colombian hostages Clara Rojas and Consuelo González. February * February 27 - Colombian FARC rebels release four former members of Congress, held hostage since 2001 and 2002, in a deal brokered by Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. March * March 2 - President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez orders the closure of the Venezuelan embassy in Colombia and moves ten battalions to the Colombian-Venezuelan border in response to the killing of FARC leader Raúl Reyes in Ecuador by Colombian armed forces the previous day. Rafael Correa, the President of Ecuador, orders troops to the Colombian border. The Colombian government accuses Correa of having "a relationship and commitments" with FARC. * March 14 - Colombian Ministry of National Defense Juan Manuel Santos says the gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008
File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; the 2008 Sichuan earthquake kills over 87,000; a destroyed Georgian T-72 tank during the Russo-Georgian War; the Trident Hotel in Mumbai was the site of the November 2008 Mumbai attacks;a line of detritus in a backyard made during the December, 2008 resulting from the Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill ; Poster in Pristina celebrating the Independence of Kosovo from Serbia., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Subprime mortgage crisis rect 200 0 400 200 Cyclone Nargis rect 400 0 600 200 2008 Summer Olympics rect 0 200 300 400 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence rect 300 200 600 400 2008 Sichuan earthquake rect 0 400 200 600 Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill rect 200 400 400 600 2008 Mumbai attacks rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Manuel Santos
Juan Manuel Santos Calderón (; born 10 August 1951) 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. An economist by profession and a journalist by trade, Santos is a member of the wealthy and influential Santos family, who from 1913 to 2007 were the majority shareholders of '' El Tiempo'' until its sale to Planeta DeAgostini in 2007. He was a cadet at the Navy Academy in Cartagena. Shortly after graduating from the University of Kansas, he joined the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia as an economic advisor and delegate to the International Coffee Organization in London, where he also attended the London School of Economics. In 1981, he was appointed deputy director of ''El Tiempo'' newspaper, becoming its director two years later. Santos earned a mid-career/master's in public administration in 1981 from Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), and was a 1988 Nieman Fellow for his awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
