KU Grad Juan Manual Santos now in charge of Latin America’s fourth largest economy and almost 300,000 troops

Juan Manual Santos, who graduated from the University of Kansas in 1973 with degrees in economics and business, was just elected to a four-year term as the president of the Republic of Colombia.

When he’s inaugurated on August 7, South Americans will finally have the opportunity to be confused by the phrase Rock Chalk, Jayhawk.