Amy Goodman
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Colombian President Wins Nobel Prize for Peace Accord, Days After Deal Loses National Referendum
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6:47Now PlayingWe go to Bogotá to get reaction to the selection of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos as this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner for his role in pursuing a peace deal to end the nation’s 52yearold civil war. The move comes after Colombians rejected the peace deal just this past Sunday in a nationwide referendum. Nobel Peace Prize Committee. "It would have been better ... if the [peace prize] had been granted both to President Santos and to Rodrigo Londoño, the head of the FARC," says Daniel GarcíaPeña, who was Colombia’s high commissioner for peace from 1995 to 1998. He is a professor of political science at the National University in Bogotá. GarcíaPeña is also the founder of the organization Planeta Paz, or Planet Peace, dedicated to building grassroots participation in the Colombian peace process.
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