Former President Santos at the LAC

The former President  of Colombia and Nobel Peace Laureate, Juan Manuel Santos, visited Oxford on 11-15 November to start his professorship in Development Studies, a post awarded to him by the Department of International Development.  As part of his visit, the Latin American Centre hosted the screening of ‘Port of Destiny” Peace’, a documentary about the Colombian peace process with the FARC under Santos presidency, after which Professor Santos answered questions from the audience.  The event took at the Nissan Lecture Theatre, where he was welcomed by the Warden of St Antony’s College, Professor Roger Goodman.

 

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Former President of Colombia and Nobel Peace Laureate Juan Manuel Santos with Professor Eduardo Posada-Carbó, Director of the Latin American Centre