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Andean Group - October 2018
A balance of Santos’ achievements in the education sector
Now that former president Juan Manuel Santos’ two-term government (2010-2018) in Colombia is over, attention can turn to analysing his achievements while in office. Santos’s most famous legacy, of course, will be the peace negotiations and agreement with the guerrilla Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) and much has been written on this topic. Less has been written about other pillars of his policy, such as education which, along with peace, social equity, and prosperity, featured among his key campaign slogans during his 2014 re-election campaign. Having declared in July 2018 that “education was the backbone of progress, the most powerful tool for social transformation”, Santos’ aim, as stated on a number of occasions, was for Colombia to have the best education system in Latin America by 2025.
