Juan Manuel Santos Calderón is the 32nd and current President of Colombia, in office since 2010. He was Minister of Defense from 2006 to 2009.
An economist by profession and a journalist by trade, Santos is a member of the wealthy and influential Santos family, who from 1913 to 2007 were the majority shareholders of the El Tiempo newspaper until its sale in 2007 to Planeta DeAgostini. Shortly after graduating from the University of Kansas, he joined the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia as an economic advisor and delegate to the International Coffee Organization in London, where he also attended the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 1981, he was appointed deputy director of El Tiempo, becoming its director two years later.
In 1991, he was appointed by President César Gaviria Trujillo as Colombia’s first Minister of Foreign Trade. Santos worked in expanding international trade with Colombia, and worked in creating various agencies for this purpose including: Proexport, Bancoldex, and Fiducoldex. In 2000, he was appointed by President Andrés Pastrana Arango as the 64th Minister of Finance and Public Credit.
Santos rose to prominence during the Administration of President Álvaro Uribe Vélez. In 2005, he co-founded and led the Social Party of National Unity (Party of the U), a liberal-conservative party coalition that backed the policies of President Uribe, successfully supporting his attempt to seek a Constitutional reform to be able to run for a second term. In 2006, after Uribe was re-elected, and the Party of the U won a majority of seats in both chambers of Congress, Santos was appointed Minister of National Defence, and continued defending the security policies of President Uribe, taking a strong and forceful stance against FARC and the other guerrilla groups operating in Colombia. He oversaw rescue operations of hostages, including Operation Jaque that led to the rescue of former presidential candidate Íngrid Betancourt, three American citizens, and 11 other members of the Colombian Army that had been held for several years. Though widely viewed as a heroic endeavour that cemented Santos’ popularity, the rescue was criticised for misappropriating emblems of the International Red Cross, a violation of the Geneva Conventions.
CGI 2022 Meeting Concludes with the Launch of 144 New Commitments to Action that Address Climate Change, Health Equity, Inclusive Economic Growth, and the Global Refugee Crisis and President Zelenskyy joined President Clinton for a conversation on the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine.
This year’s meeting included over 2,100 leaders from across the public and private sectors, including Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan; José Andrés, Founder and Chief Feeding Officer, World Central Kitchen; Xiye Bastida, Climate Justice Activist; Xavier Becerra, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services; Bono, Lead Singer of U2, Co-Founder of ONE and (RED).
Matt Damon, Co-Founder, Water.org; Thasunda Brown Duckett, President and CEO, TIAA; Larry Fink, Chairman and CEO, BlackRock; Melinda French Gates, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Founder, Pivotal Ventures; Jennifer Granholm, U.S. Secretary of Energy; Dolores Huerta, President, Dolores Huerta Foundation; Laurene Powell Jobs, Founder and President, Emerson Collective.
Today, President Bill Clinton, Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Clinton Foundation Vice Chair Chelsea Clinton concluded the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) 2022 Meeting, announcing 144 new Commitments to Action that address climate change, health equity, inclusive economic growth, and the global refugee crisis.
For the first time since 2016, CGI brought together global and emerging leaders to take action on the world’s most pressing challenges. Highlights from the CGI 2022 Meeting program include:
President Zelenskyy of Ukraine and President Clinton in a one-on-one conversation about the state of global affairs; the refugee crisis created by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; and what members of the CGI community can do to help. Watch the conversation, and read the full transcript of the conversation here.
Secretary Clinton speaking with Malala Yousafzai about expanding education for girls worldwide, following Malala receiving the Elevate Prize Catalyst Award on stage;
It was a great pleasure to see President Clinton Back with his Clinton Global Initiative, after six years, it was a great two-day conference, with thousands of people attending all over the world, with one goal in mind how can they serve humanity, there is no better way, then the way president Clinton does it.
Bringing everybody together and do brain storming, make commitments and get things done. We have covered every Clinton Global Initiative, ( CGI), President Clinton has done throughout the years. It is amazing how he gets, Political heads from all over the World, Movie Stars, CEO’s from all sectors, Non-Profit heads and organizations, Royalty from around the world.
President Clinton truly is a great man, with a heart of gold, and saving and touching millions of lives worldwide, he has to be one of the greatest Humanitarian of our Era. Thank you for what you do and give World Liberty TV, the opportunity to share your vision with our readers worldwide.
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The United Nations Association of El Salvador (UNA-SV) is a non-profit organization dedicated to educate, inspire and promote the United Nations principles, values and the sustainable development goals in El Salvador and worldwide.
Dr. Garcia was the Permanent Representative of El Salvador to the United Nations, in New York. He has a combined diplomatic experience of over 20 years.
He also the co-founder and Secretary General of the United Nations Association of El Salvador. Prior to his appointment as the OPAD UN|USA, Latin American and the Caribbean, has work in several humanitarian organizations and represent them in the United Nations in New York. He has received several outstanding awards and recognition by the United States’ Senates and received the USA flag as an honored diplomat. Recently he received the United States’ Senate Proclamation, which certified his credibility.
OPAD aims: to improve the standard of living for all people by recognizing them as resources and not as victims. Our programs work toward the promotion of the economic and social livelihoods by empowering the people in the fight against poverty.
To mitigate the problems presented by poverty, promote positive climate change, and support international laws protecting humanitarian values across cultures.
Simultaneously we enable people, young and old, to actively participate in their community by providing them with opportunities for knowledge and access to resources.
The main developmental problems of men and women included drugs and alcohol abuse, irresponsible parenting, High illiteracy level among women, retrogressive cultural practices, inadequate lively hood opportunity and low income levels, early teenage pregnancies, school drop outs among others.
The main problem was inadequate resource ownership among men and women which is associated with money, body and education.
Project Goal:The purpose of the project will ensure that community knowledge on Violence against Women improved. While the project goal ensure that women and men in Kisii, Kakamega, Migori, Kisumu and Siaya counties will have equal access to resource ownership that will be instrumental to change people’s attitude.
Close to Twenty people were invited to the United Nations Delegate Room, to speak about the same principles of the Org for Poverty Alleviation and Development., (opad). The purpose of the event was to speak about different topics aligned with opad’s mission. World Hunger, Sustainability, Technology, Clean water.
Ambassador ,Dr. Carlos Garcia, Secretary General of United Nations Association of El Salvador and President and CEO, opad El-Salvador. Amb. Carlos opened with remarks thanked all for being in attendance at his luncheon, he went on to say, he was very happy to have a group of business people, NGO’s , Doctors, Media Tycoons, Teachers and many more.
The following spoke on different topics, Irene R.Delgado,Phd. Spoke on the Topic Teachers and Social, media, next speaker was Dr Mashul Hassan MD, who spoke on the topic of Bangladesh, a former Veteran , he also went to speak about COVID-19.
The Next speaker was Boris Davidoff, president Clear World Corp, he was talking about clean water and how his company can help companies about getting fresh water to many countries who do not have fresh clean water, with his technologies.
Mr. Dash Former NYPD , officer spoke on his relationship with Ambassador, Carlos how they had worked with many churches here in USA as well as El-Salvador.
Keynote Speech was by Dr.Adal M.Hussain, Founder of Humanitarians of the World Inc, (HOTWINC), and publisher and Chief Editor World Liberty TV. He spoke about the 44 years he has been a humanitarian how, HOTWINC, had helped close to 1 million people worldwide. He never charged any money for his services.
Dr.Hussain also went on to say, we have helped close to 1 Million Children around the World, by giving them basic items, Food, Water, Clothing and Toys . He finished by saying we have started the World’s first ever Humanitarian Hall of Fame (TM), honoring humanitarians around the world, by giving them a medal and inducting them in the Hall of fame. He also went on to say Farida Yasmin, Executive Producer of Newly formed, American Azaan International TV, who will be debuting it very soon, showing many programs in Bangladesh, and at the United Nations.
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