Nobel Peace Prize laureates head to Mexico for World Summit

Dozens of Nobel Peace Prize laureates gathered in the Mexican city of Merida on Thursday for the 17th World Summit. The event aims to advance issues of global peace. Amongst those in attendance was ex Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos. The former leader won the prize in 2016 for his efforts to end a 52-year-old war with Marxist guerrillas.

Poland's former President talked up democracy and popular participation in government at the event. He won the Nobel Prize in 1983 for his campaigns for freedom of organization in Poland amidst Communist rule. Nobel Peace Laureate and anti-landmine campaigner Jody Williams was also at the event, decrying the vast sums of U.S. military expenditure against other issues such as health and education. The four-day event wraps up on September 21.