César Augusto Gaviria Trujillo is a Colombian economist and politician who served as the President of Colombia from 1990 to 1994,Secretary General of the Organization of American States from 1994 to 2004 and National Director of the Colombian Liberal Party from 2005 to 2009. During his tenure as president,he summoned the Constituent Assembly of Colombia that enacted the Constitution of 1991.
Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento was a Colombian liberal politician and journalist who ran for the Presidency of Colombia on two occasions,the first time for the political movement New Liberalism that he founded in 1979. The movement was an offspring of the mainstream Colombian Liberal Party,and with mediation of former Liberal president Julio César Turbay Ayala,Galán returned to the Liberal party in 1989 and sought the nomination for the 1990 presidential election,but was assassinated before the vote took place.
The Alternative Democratic Pole is a left-wing political party in Colombia,active from 2005 to the present. In 2022 it was successful at the polls and formed the Government of Colombia.
El Espectador is a newspaper of national circulation within Colombia,founded by Fidel Cano Gutiérrez on March 22,1887,in Medellín and published since 1915 in Bogotá. It transition from a daily to a weekly edition in 2001,following a financial crisis,and again with a daily released since May 11,2008,a comeback which had been long rumoured,in tabloid format. From 1997 to 2011 its main shareholder was Julio Mario Santo Domingo.
Carlos Emilio Gaviria Díaz was a Colombian lawyer,professor and politician. He served as the 5th Chief Magistrate of the Constitutional Court of Colombia,where he served as a Magistrate from 1993 to 2001. After retiring from the Court,he went into politics becoming a Senator of Colombia in 2002,and running for President as an Alternative Democratic Pole candidate in the 2006 presidential election,ultimately losing to ex-president Álvaro Uribe Vélez,who was seeking his second term in office.
The Colombian parapolitics scandal or "parapolítica" in Spanish refers to the 2006–present Colombian congressional scandal in which several congressmen and other politicians have been indicted for colluding with the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC),a paramilitary group which is responsible for killing thousands of Colombian civilians.
Fernando Botero Zea is a businessman and liberal politician of dual Colombia and Mexican nationalities,mainly known for having served as Minister of National Defense of Colombia and also for being an important businessman based in Mexico City. He is the son of Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero and cultural promoter and icon Gloria Zea.
Rodrigo Lara Bonilla was a Colombian lawyer and politician,who served as Minister of Justice under President Belisario Betancur,and was assassinated by orders of Pablo Escobar because of his work as Minister in prosecuting cocaine traffickers mainly belonging to the Medellín Cartel.
Luis Alfredo Ramos Botero is a Colombian politician. Most recently,he was the Governor of the Department of Antioquia from 2008 to 2011.
Séptimo día is a Colombian television newsmagazine broadcast by Caracol TV on Sunday evenings. It proclaims itself as "a weapon against injustice".
Virginia Vallejo García is a Colombian author,journalist,television and radio director,anchorwoman,model,columnist,socialite,and political asylee in the United States of America.
Carlos Alberto Baena López is a Colombian lawyer and politician,who serves,since 2020,as Vice Minister for Participation and Equality of Rights of the Ministry of the Interior of Colombia. He served as Senator of Colombia from 2010 to 2014. Baena is a co-founder of the Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation (MIRA) and has served two terms as Party Chairman. Before ascending to Congress,Baena served as Councillor of the BogotáCity Council from 2001 to 2009.
Gilberto Echeverri Mejía was a Colombian electrical engineer,businessman and politician who on 21 April 2002 was kidnapped by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - FARC-EP along with the then-Governor of Antioquia Guillermo Gaviria Correa among others while participating in a peace walk and held hostage until 5 May 2003 when he was murdered by the guerrillas during a botched rescue operation by government forces deep in the Colombian northwestern jungle,bordering between Antioquia and Chocó. A Liberal party politician,he had previously served as Ambassador of Colombia to Ecuador from 1975 to 1977 in the Administration of President Alfonso López Michelsen,Minister of Economic Development from 1978 to 1980 in the Administration of President Julio César Turbay Ayala,Minister of National Defence from 1997 to 1998 in the Administration of President Ernesto Samper Pizano,and was working as peace advisor to Governor Gaviria before he was kidnapped.
Juan Manuel Galán Pachón is a Colombian politician,currently serving as Senator of Colombia since 2006. He is the son and political heir of the assassinated political activist,politician,and presidential candidate,Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento. A former member of the Liberal party,he refounded his father's party New Liberalism in 2021.
The Colombian peace agreement referendum was held on 2 October 2016,aiming to ratify the final agreement on the termination of the Colombian conflict between the Colombian government and the FARC guerillas. It failed,with 50.2% voting against it and 49.8% voting in favor. Approval of the referendum was taken for granted in Colombia prior to the vote based on opinion polls. However,the 'No' option ended up winning by a narrow margin.
Lorenzo Guillermo Botero Nieto is a Colombian lawyer,businessman,lecturer,and politician. He was appointed as Minister of Defense between 2018 and November 2019.
Álvaro Leyva Durán is a Colombian lawyer,economist,politician,human rights defender and diplomat. He has been the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Colombia in the government of Gustavo Petro since 7 August 2022. On 7 February 2024,he was suspended from his ministerial position for three months over an investigation into potential violations of procurement laws.
Kontacto is a case of colombian national political corruption that began with the use of a system structured by a digital application and the logistical spread of around 1,500 contractors from various public entities,to favor the election of figures close to the colombian Colombian Liberal Party in various corporations in the department of Risaralda,through coercion of public officials and contractors. Its operation was based on a pyramid scheme with the renewal of their public contracts promess,based on the volume of voters registered into the database managed from the Pereira mayor's office,according to the denominations of:Quarterback,Pitcher and Catcher. Evidence shows that up to 55,000 people from the Metropolitan Area were housed in the system,most of them without authorization and others with complete ignorance on it,as demonstrated by the swedish computer forensics group Qurium in coordination with the media. Investigative Cuestión Pública and with the subsequent confirmation of the Karisma Foundation. This fact became known after a citizen complaint in 2019 regional elections performance,involving the former mayor of Pereira and today senator Juan Pablo Gallo,the current mayor Carlos Maya,the former representative of the Chamber Diego Naranjo Escobar,the company GoDaddy,the Office of the Attorney General of Colombia,Senator Samy Meregh and the former president and permanent leader of the Colombian Liberal Party César Gaviria Trujillo.
Carlos Fernando Galán Pachón is a Colombian politician and journalist. The youngest son of the presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento,assassinated in 1989,and brother of the senator Juan Manuel Galán. Galán has been a BogotáCouncilor and a Senator of the Republic of Colombia,a position he resigned after resigning from the Radical Change Party due to ideological differences,the main of them,the support that his party decided to give Iván Duque for the 2018 presidential elections.
Gloria Pachón de Galán is a Colombian politician and journalist. Between 1993 and 1995 she was the ambassador of Colombia in France during the government of César Gaviria and member of the executive board of UNESCO.
