Juan Miguel Santos Calderon is a Colombian politician. He has been the President of Colombia since August 2010. He served previously as minister of Foreign Trade, Finance and national defense. Santos is a member of one of Colombia's richest families.

Santos announced in August 2012 that the Colombian government is looking for exploratory talks with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC), a Colombian guerrilla army. Moreover he said that he would learn from previous leaders mistakes regarding a ceasefire with FARC, even though the military would still continue operations in and outside of Colombia while talks continued.