Juan Camilo Restrepo Salazar (born 19 October 1946) was the 10th Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of Colombia, serving in the administration of

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Juan Manuel Santos Calderón Juan Manuel Santos Calderón (; born 10 August 1951) is a Colombian politician who was the President of Colombia from 2010 to 2018. He was the sole recipient of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize. An economist by profession and a journalist by trade ...

. A veteran politician, he also served as the 63rd

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, the 17th Minister of Mines and Energy of Colombia, the 20th Ambassador of Colombia to France, and as

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. A lifelong member of the Conservative Party, he tried to run for the Conservative presidential nomination in

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

, losing in the primaries, and 2002, where he won the primaries but withdrew before the election.

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* * 1946 births People from Medellín Living people 20th-century Colombian lawyers Colombian Conservative Party politicians Ministers of Mines and Energy of Colombia Members of the Senate of Colombia Ministers of Finance and Public Credit of Colombia Ambassadors of Colombia to France Ministers of Agriculture and Rural Development of Colombia {{Colombia-politician-stub