Francisco Santos Calderón

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Francisco Santos Calderón
Francisco Santos Calderón
Incumbent
Assumed office 
August 7, 2002
President Alvaro Uribe Velez
Preceded by Gustavo Bell Lemus
Succeeded by Incumbent
Born October 14, 1961 (1961-10-14) (age 46)
Bogotá, Capital District
Nationality Colombian
Political party Colombia First
Spouse María Victoria García
Alma mater University of Kansas,

University of Texas at Austin
Occupation Journalist, Professor
Religion Roman Catholic

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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In 1990 the Medellín 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

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 awareness and helping the victims and their families.[1]

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