Francisco Santos Calderón
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| Francisco Santos Calderón | |
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| Assumed office August 7, 2002 |
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| President | Alvaro Uribe Velez |
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| Preceded by | Gustavo Bell Lemus |
| Succeeded by | Incumbent |
| In office August 7, 2002 – August 7, 2010 |
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| President | Alvaro Uribe Velez |
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| Born | Bogotá  Colombia |
| Spouse | María Victoria García |
Francisco Santos Calderón also known as Pacho Santos born in the city of Bogotá, is a Colombian politician and journalist. Santos was elected as Alvaro Uribe's second runner up and became Vice President in the Colombian elections of 2002. Santos was re-elected in the presidential elections of 2006 for a second term once again with President Uribe to continue as Vice President of Colombia.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Kidnapping
In 1990 the Medellin Cartel led by Pablo Escobar kidnapped him to pressure the Colombian government to revert its support of druglords' extraditions to the United States. After his release Santos spent two years at Harvard University in the United States
[edit] Human Rights advocate
Upon his return, Santos became an advocate of Human rights in Colombia, specially those victims affected by kidnapping after he himself suffered from this practice and created the NGO Fundación Pais Libre (Free Country Foundation) with the intentions of creating awarness and helping the victims and their families.[1]
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