Manuel Santos Beker

April 9, 2023

Guatemala’s new president to take office against the odds

...“We are all here for the same reason, the resistance, for democracy,” said 54-year-old Santos Brígido Menchú in the camp in Guatemala City this week. “The will of the people must be respected.”...

January 14, 2024

FT Live

Brazil Summit

Building a resilient and sustainable economy

News in-depthColombia

Colombia’s leader promised ‘total peace’. Then violence surged

...Juan Manuel Santos, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for reaching the peace agreement with the Farc while president, said Petro needed to implement the existing accords properly in order to create a solid foundation...

November 23, 2023

News in-depthColombia

‘You shut up shop or you die’: Colombia stumbles on path to ‘total peace’

...That deal won then-president Juan Manuel Santos a Nobel Peace Prize, but its implementation had stuttered....

April 24, 2023

FirstFT

FirstFT: China responds to Taiwan’s US visit with military manoeuvres

...Opinion: Ambition is needed to rebuild trust in multilateralism, writes former president of Colombia and Nobel Peace laureate Juan Manuel Santos. 3....

April 10, 2023

FT Magazine

What led a father to advocate for his child’s convicted killer’s release

...Lasi admitted having been at the scene of the murder, pointing out that he had been accompanied by two other men, Daniel Vilte and Santos Clemente Vera....

December 8, 2023

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Africa Summit

Africa in a complex world

Brazilian politics

White House under pressure to expel Bolsonaro after Brazil riots

...Mexico, and the United States condemn the January 8 attacks on Brazil’s democracy and on the peaceful transfer of power,” the US president said in a joint statement on Monday with Mexico’s leader, Andrés Manuel...

January 9, 2023

Colombia

Colombia to resume peace talks with largest remaining rebel group

...Santos in 2016....

November 21, 2022

The Big Read

The discreet US campaign to defend Brazil’s election

...A senior Brazilian official who was closely involved recalls that Bolsonaro’s navy minister, Admiral Almir Garnier Santos, was the most “difficult” of the military chiefs....

June 21, 2023

News updates from December 9: US Senate paves way for raising debt ceiling, Austria to impose up to €3,600 fines under mandatory Covid vaccination rules, US places visa restrictions on Africa’s richest woman

US places visa restrictions on Isabel dos Santos

...Leopoldo Fragoso do Nascimento and Manuel Helder Vieira Dias, known as Dino and Kopelipa respectively, were sanctioned for alleged corruption....

December 9, 2021

Bribery and corruption

US places visa restrictions on Isabel dos Santos for alleged corruption

...Leopoldo Fragoso do Nascimento and Manuel Helder Vieira Dias, known as Dino and Kopelipa respectively, were sanctioned for alleged corruption....

December 9, 2021

The Big Read

How Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro outfoxed the west

...Santos....

March 5, 2023

OutlookMichael Stott

Election puts Colombia on cusp of change

...There was a terrible cost in human rights abuses but Juan Manuel Santos, Uribe’s successor, signed a deal with the Farc in 2016....

May 9, 2022

Transcript

How to broker a deal between Russia and Ukraine

...News clipThe agreement is now being signed by the president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos....

August 4, 2022

Americas politics & policy

Crisis of US democracy emboldens Latin American populists, says rights chief

...Santos told the FT....

January 26, 2022

FT Live

The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition

FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government

Letter

Letter: Colombia’s peace involves a crossfire of moral issues

...But while substantial recent commentary praises President Juan Manuel Santos for spearheading the peace, Long is right to argue the peace remains “elusive”....

October 11, 2021

Portugal

Emigration and low growth fuel Portugal’s demographic crisis

...dos Santos Foundation....

January 20, 2022

News in-depthPortugal

Trust in Portugal’s elite wanes over struggle to tackle corruption

January 6, 2022

The Big Read

Colombia: why peace remains elusive five years after Farc deal

...In the streets below, people dressed in white waved white handkerchiefs as president Juan Manuel Santos and Rodrigo Londoño, better known by his nom-de-guerre Timochenko, signed an agreement to bring Latin...

September 19, 2021

Isabel dos Santos

Africa’s richest woman says she was targeted in ‘personal vendetta’

...is said to have recorded members of Angola’s political and business elite without their knowledge, including Carlos Saturnino, the chair of Sonangol, and relatives of such powerful political figures as Manuel...

March 29, 2021

Angola

Angola sharpens fight to recover stolen cash as debt pressure mounts

...These two men together with Manuel Vicente, chairman of Sonangol before he became deputy to Mr dos Santos, controlled significant business interests as a so-called “triumvirate”....

November 11, 2020

News in-depthColombia

Colombia’s Uribe on Venezuela: ‘Tyranny has established itself’

...He led a successful referendum campaign against the 2016 peace agreement which his successor, Juan Manuel Santos, signed with the Farc, saying it was too generous to the guerrillas....

December 4, 2020

The Big Read

Cocaine: Colombia weighs a new aerial war on drugs

...The government of Juan Manuel Santos immediately halted flights. Since then, manual eradicators have come into their own....

February 20, 2021

Bolivia

Bolivia’s socialists proclaim election victory

...That happened in Colombia, where Juan Manuel Santos broke with his mentor Álvaro Uribe, and more recently in Ecuador, where current president Lenín Moreno has fallen out in spectacular style with Rafael...

October 19, 2020

InterviewColombia

Colombia’s guerrilla leader swaps battle fatigues for bedtime stories

...The peace deal won the president who negotiated it, Juan Manuel Santos, a Nobel Peace Prize but implementation under his more sceptical successor, Iván Duque, has been slow....

July 10, 2020

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