General: Minister of Defense in the government of Uribe, Minister of Finance with Pastrana, Minister of Foreign Trade with Gaviria, Juan Manuel Santos has been mainly located in major positions of power in Colombia. Politician, journalist, economist, member of one of the most powerful and influential families in Colombia, closely linked to journalism (newspaper El Tiempo, of which JM Santos was deputy in 1993, Colombia's leading newspaper) and politics. His career has evolved from a brilliant economist interested in liberalizing the economy and social situation of their country through the social ideas of the "Third Way" far more conservative positions and controversies. His scathing attack on the FARC supporting interventions in foreign countries on the grounds of "legitimate defense" is a constant cause of conflict with the governments of Venezuela and Ecuador. The Colombia Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos Calderon, one of the possible candidates for the presidency of Colombia has made headlines recently for his estrangement with Uribe because of three reasons: his statements on the settlement of the DAS, his thesis' self-defense "to justify military intervention in Ecuador and Venezuela against the governments of Ecuador and Venezuela. Álvaro Uribe already accumulated several scrapes with Saints issued a statement asking his colleagues to "take great care in the statements that jeopardize international policies, which must be issued by the Minister of Foreign Affairs." Politician, journalist, economist, member of one of the most powerful and influential families in Colombia, closely linked to journalism (newspaper El Tiempo, of which JM Santos was deputy in 1993, Colombia's leading newspaper) and politics. Its cousin, Francisco Santos Calderón, ranks second in the Uribe administration, Vice President of Colombia. Juan Manuel Santos Calderon took the Defense Ministry since June 2006. Under his tenure the Colombian military, with the active participation of U.S. security agencies, have caused extensive damage in the FARC: the death of Raul Reyes (Operation Phoenix, March 2008) and the release of Ingrid Betancourt (Operation Checkmate, June 2008 ) are some of the best known cases. In late 2008 he was implicated in the scandal of "false positives" (murders of civilians who then posed as guerrilla casualties) In 2007 the drug trafficker and paramilitary Salvatore Mancuso stated that JM Santos in 1997 had planned to overthrow the then President Samper and establish a ceasefire with the guerrillas and restructuring the state. Mancuso said the ties to Vice President and Juan Manuel Santos with paramilitary guerrillas. Mancuso was the top commander of Colombia's United Self-Defense (AUC) and the Santos brothers accused of paramilitary State. President Uribe had to publicly defend his ministers Mancuso's accusations, the alleged involvement of JM Saints in the case of many eavesdropping by the security forces, its intervention in the affairs of conflict with Venezuela that caused serious diplomatic incidents take you to the opposition Alternative Democratic Pole and the Liberal Party, to promote a motion of censure he. President Uribe came to his defense and, moreover, Congress rejected the motion. Santos went favored The relationship with Álvaro Uribe goes back to 2005, when Juan Manuel Santos, left the Liberal Party to support Uribe's forces, organized the U Party (party Uribe) Santos is a sworn enemy of Chavez and supported the coup in Venezuela in 2002. He maintains that Venezuela is the place of refuge for the FARC, with the complicity of Chavez and therefore "self-defense of Colombia" justifies military intervention outside Colombia. Uribe came from the Colombian Liberal Party, which distanced itself in the years 2003-2004. In 2000 he entered the government of Andres Pastrana as Minister for Finance and Public Credit. From this position creates the Unit of Financial Information and Analysis, dedicated since then to prevent and detect money laundering operations by the FARC Until then he had a great importance the Liberal Party, which had come to the Chair of the Executive Committee In 1999 he published The Third Way: an alternative for Colombia. In 1994 the founding Corporate Governance Committee, a platform for discussing the idea for the renewal of social structure of the Colombian government. At this time collaborating with his friend Tony Blair in the book "The Third Way" In 1993 he was elected by the Senate as the Chair Designate of the Republic. With 40 years was one of the most influential and powerful people of Colombia. He also had a significant international support and who had held the presidency of ECLAC and had worked in Trade and Development issues in the UN (UNCTAD) Already had experience as governor. In 1991, César Gaviria appointed...