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Colombian President Santos & Drug-Trafficking Reform, “It makes no sense to imprison a peasant who grows marijuana”

December 12, 2016
Colombia
diplomacy
drug war
FARC
Juan Miguel Santos
News
Nobel Peace Prize
Norway
Oslo
politics
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia

Colombian President receives Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo for bringing peace between Colombia and FARC Video via CBS News Colombian President Juan Miguel Santos used his minutes at the Noble Peace prize podium to discuss the need for world governments to “rethink” the war on drugs saying, “It makes no sense to imprison a peasant […]

Vladimir Putin Wins China’s Confucius Prize for Keeping World Peace.

November 16, 2011
China
Confucius Prize
Libya
Nobel Peace Prize
People's Republic of China
Russia
Vladimir Putin
World Peace

China’s version of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Confucius Peace Prize, was awarded to current Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin for his efforts at keeping world peace. The former Russian president beat out German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Yuan Longping, an “agricultural scientist.” The prize’s administration is overseen by an association under the control of […]