ENGLISH WORKSHOP 10TH GRADE 2ND PERIOD, 2014

NAME : _________________________________________________________
LEA EL ARTCULO Y LUEGO RESPONDA LAS PREGUNTAS. MARQUE A, B, C D
Juan Manuel Santos Caldern

He is the 32nd and current President of Colombia, in office since 2010. He was Minister of
Defence from 2006 to 2009.
Juan Manuel was born on August, 1951, in Bogot to Enrique Santos Castillo and his wife
Clemencia Caldern Nieto,

the third of four children, his brothers are: Enrique, Luis
Fernando, and Felipe. The Santos family has been a well established and influential family
since colonial times; his great-great-grandaunt was Mara Antonia Santos Plata, a martyr
of the Independence of Colombia, and his great-granduncle was Eduardo Santos Montejo,

President of Colombia between 1938 and 1942, who acquired the national newspaper El
Tiempo. From there, his family has been connected to the newspaper and influenced the
political life of the country; Eduardo's brother, Enrique, grandfather of Juan Manuel,
and editor in chief of El Tiempo, was known as "Calibn" to his readers, and his three sons,
Enrique (Juan Manuel's father) and Hernando Santos Castillo, and Enrique Santos
Molano were chief editor, director, and columnist respectively. Through his father's
brother, Hernando, and his mother's sister, Elena, Juan Manuel is also first cousin on both
sides to Francisco Santos Caldern, former Vice President of Colombia during the previous
administration from 2002 to 2010.
Santos is married to Mara Clemencia Rodrguez Mnera, or "Tutina" as she is known to
those close to her, an industrial designer he had met while she worked as a private
secretary at the Ministry of Communications and he was Deputy Director of El Tiempo.

Together they had three children, Martn (b. 1989), Mara Antonia (b. 1991), and Esteban
(b. 1993).
Santos attended the Colegio San Carlos,

a private secondary school in Bogot, where he
spend most of his school years until 1967, when he enlisted in the Colombian Navy and
transferred to the Admiral Padilla Naval Cadet School in Cartagena, graduating from it in
1969, and continuing in the Navy until 1971, finishing with the rank of Naval Cadet. After
leaving the Navy, Santos moved to the United States where he attended the University of
Kansas. He graduated in 1973 with a Bachelor in Economics and Business Administration.

He later attended the London School of Economics and Political Science, graduating with a
Master of Science in Economic Development in 1975,

and the John F. Kennedy School of
Government at Harvard University, graduating with a Mid-Career Master in Public
Administration in 1981. Santos also holds an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.
Juan Manuel Santos served as Chief Executive Of (CEO) the National Federation of Coffee
Growers of Colombia to the International Coffee Organization in London and Deputy
Director of his family owned newspaper El Tiempo. He was Minister of Foreign Trade of
Colombia during the administration of President Csar Gaviria Trujillo from 1991 to 1994,
Minister of Finance and Public Credit of Colombia during the administration of
President Andres Pastrana Arango from 2000 to 2002. In 1992 he was appointed President
of the VII United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.

In 1994 Juan Manuel Santos founded the Good Government Foundation, whose stated
objective is helping and improving the governability and efficiency of the Colombian
Government. This organization presented a proposal for a demilitarized zone and peace
talks with the FARC guerrilla group.
Santos also founded the Social National Unity Party (Party of the U) to support
the presidency of lvaro Uribe. He was named Minister of Defence on 19 July 2006.
During his tenure as Defence Minister, the administration dealt a series of blows against
the FARC guerrilla group, including the rescue of Fernando Arajo, the death of FARC
Secretariat member Raul Reyes in a 2 March 2008 air strike against a guerrilla camp
located within Ecuador's borders, and the non-violent rescue of former presidential
candidate Ingrid Betancourt held captive since 2002, along with fourteen other hostages,
including three American citizens.
On 20 June 2010, after two rounds of voting in the Presidential election, Juan Manuel
Santos Caldern was officially elected as President of Colombia and was inaugurated on 7
August 2010 in the midst of a diplomatic crisis with Venezuela, which was quickly
resolved.
On 15 June 2014, Santos won the Presidential re-election with the 50.95% of the popular
vote during the second round of the election. President Santos addressed supporters and
volunteers gathered at the campaign's headquarters in the Claustro de La Enseanza after
his reelection and said: "This is the end of 50 years of conflict in this country, and it is the
beginning of a new Colombia".


1. What is the writes purpose of this article?

A. Explain the election of the President of Colombia
B. Tell us about the life of the Santos family.
C. Describe all Juan Manuel Santos public Jobs.
D. Tell us about the life of the President of Colombia

2. How old is Juan Manuel Santos ?

A. 15
B. 67
C. 63
D. 52

3. El Tiempo is:

A. The forecast report
B. Juan Manuel Santos family book
C. A Party
D. The family newspaper

4. In 1967, Juan Manuel Santos enlisted:

A. The Navy School in Cartagena
B. The Colombian Army
C. The University of Kansas
D. The USA Navy

5. The National Federation of Coffee Growers is:

A. An institution which teaches how to grow coffee
B. A business cooperative that promotes the production and exportation
of Colombian coffee
C. A cafetera in which Colombian coffee is sold and served
D. A federation of the Santos family



6. Juan Manuel Santos founded these two institutions:

A. University of Kansas and Harvard
B. El Tiempo and El Pas
C. Good Government Foundation and Party of the U
D. Economics School and Political Sciences School


7. Before his election as President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos was chosen for
these Ministries:

A. Minister of ____________________
B. Minister of ____________________
C. Minister of ____________________

8. Juan Manuel Santos Presidential period started in 2010, and after the re-election
in 2014, he will be in Casa de Nario until:

A. 2020
B. 2016
C. 2024
D. 2018
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EXTRA ACTIVITY
CUAL PALABRA (A-D) CONCUERDA CON LA DESCRIPCION DE CADA FRASE DE LA
IZQUIERDA (1-4)?


1. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia _____ A. Coffee
2. The leader of a country _____ B. Ministry
3. Our national beverage_____ C. President
4. A department of a government_____ D. FARC



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