Juan Manuel Santos

Colombia Presidential Elections 2014: Unpacking the Complexities of Peace

By Richard Hill
October 13, 2016

On June 15, 2014, elections were held for the second time in Colombia in two months to determine who would serve as president for the next four years.  Colombian elections, like presidential elections in many Latin American countries, take place in two rounds, if no winner can secure over 50% of the votes in the first round.  In 2014, the current president, Juan Manuel Santos, of the center-right Party of the U, faced off against four challengers:  Óscar Iván Zuluaga, of the Democratic Center; Clara López Obregón, of the Polo Democrático Alternativo; Marta Lucía Ram

New Americas Barometer Insight: Colombians’ Views of the FARC as a Political Party

By LAPOP - Americas Barometer
October 13, 2016

The peace negotiations currently underway in Colombia between the Juan Manuel Santos government and the guerilla group known as theFARC are setting the conditions for the eventual electoral participation of FARC excombatants,including the opportunity for them to run for office. This Insights reportexamines the attitudes of Colombians towards the FARC’s formal participation in thecountry’s political system.

The Next Step in FARC & Colombia Relations

By Sophia Winston
October 12, 2016

After nearly two years of peace negotiations between FARC and the Colombian government, the FARC have done something they have never done before. In all the 50 years that FARC has been terrorizing Colombia, they have never once sequestered a government or military official, but on November 16th, 2014, a leading general in the Colombian military was captured while traversing a remote river in an indigenous region of the Colombian rainforest.

Al Jazeera's "Endgame": Is An End In Sight?

By Susan Wiedel
October 10, 2016

Rodrigo Vasquez–a self-described producer, film director, creative director, designer, cameraman and journalist from Buenos Aires, Argentina–has traveled to dozens of countries around the world where he has reported on issues of social, political and economic injustice. For an installment in Al Jazeera’s news program People & Power, Vasquez took his camera into the jungles of Colombia to investigate the state of the hemisphere’s longest lasting guerrilla war.

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