The Nobel Prize Committee’s decision to give the prize to came just days after voters in Colombia narrowly rejected the text of the peace deal between the government of Santos and the FARC.
Further, it is the committee’s hope that in the years to come, the Colombian people will reap the fruits of the reconciliation process,” Kullmann Five said.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has announced he will donate the €830,000 he received as part of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize he was awarded on Friday to victims of the country’s five-decade long civil war.
“We are going to choose projects, or foundations or programs that are connected to the victims,” the 65-year-old leader explained, without providing further details.
Santos is just the second South American to win the Nobel Peace Prize, the first being Guatemalan political activist Rigoberta Menchú, who received the award in 1992.
Fuente: http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/10/10/inenglish/1476087158_424776.html
