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Juan Manuel
Santos, President of Colombia
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Colombian President Juan
Manuel Santos won the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a surprise after
Colombians voted "No" to an agreement he signed with Marxist rebels
to end 52 years of war.
Reuters
report continues:
Santos
has promised to revive a peace plan even though Colombians, in a referendum on
Sunday, narrowly rejected the accord. Many voters reckoned it was too lenient
on the FARC guerrillas.
The Nobel Peace Prize, worth 8 million Swedish crowns (US$930,000), will be presented in Oslo on Dec. 10. (US$1 = 8.5891 Swedish crowns)
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