El Tiempo is a nationally distributed broadsheet daily newspaper in Colombia launched on January 30,1911. As of 2019,El Tiempo had the highest circulation in Colombia with an average daily weekday of 1,137,483 readers,rising to 1,921,571 readers for the Sunday edition.
The Categoría Primera A,commonly referred to as Liga BetPlay Dimayor due to sponsorship by online betting company BetPlay,is a Colombian professional league for association football clubs. It is the country's premier football tournament and sits at the top of the Colombian football league system.
Iván RenéValenciano Pérez is a Colombian former professional footballer who played as forward. He is the second top goalscorer of all-time in the Colombian Primera A with 217 goals,behind Argentine Sergio Galván Rey,who surpasses him with 224 goals.
Andrés López is a comedian and actor. He is considered a pioneer of stand-up comedy in Colombia. López gained notoriety in Colombia after releasing his show called La Pelota de Letras which earned him a Double Diamond award from Universal Music.
Arab Colombians refers to Arab immigrants and their descendants in the Republic of Colombia. Most of the migrants came from Lebanon,Jordan,Syria and Palestine. When they were first processed in the ports of Colombia,they were classified as Turks because what is now Lebanon,Syria,Jordan and Palestine were then territories of the Ottoman Empire. It is estimated that Colombia has a Lebanese population of 3.2 million. Meanwhile the Palestine population is estimated between 100,000-120,000.
Édgar JoséPerea Arias was a Colombian politician and football radio and television commentator. In a country where soccer is the national pastime,Perea was considered one of Colombia's greatest sportscasters. He was known in Colombia for his thunderous voice and for the way he intoned the traditional Spanish-style "Goooooooool!" sound when a goal had been scored. Perea commentated on eight football World Cups,fifteen World Series for CBS Spanish Radio,seven Olympics,many boxing matches and thousands of soccer matches in Colombia and abroad. He became so successful as a sportscaster that he transcended himself into a national politician. Perea was Afro-Colombian and broke down many barriers that kept black Colombians from gaining admiration and respect in Colombian pop culture and in entering the ritzy social scenes of Colombian society. After gaining popularity for his picturesque way of narrating football matches,Perea joined the Colombian Liberal Party with the support of then presidential candidate Horacio Serpa and ran for the senate. In 2009 he was appointed Ambassador to Colombia in South Africa.
JoséDavid Name Cardozo is a Colombian senator. He is a member of the Party of the U,and is the son of former Senator JoséName Terán. He became a senator in 2006 after serving as consul of Colombia in New York from 1999 to 2005.
Alejandro Char Chaljub,commonly known as Alex Char,is a Colombian politician. He is Mayor of Barranquilla for the third time,having previously served two terms from 2008 to 2011 and 2016 to 2019. A civil engineer and member of the Radical Change Party,he was councilor for the Liberal Party in 1997 and in 2000 ran for the Governorship of the Department of Atlántico. Initial ballot results gave victory to his contender Ventura Díaz Mejía,but after a lengthy and often criticized process,the Administrative Supreme Court of Colombia reviewed the election results and found Char to be rightful winner of the race and allowed him to serve the remaining period of his term in 2003.
Natalia Navarro Galvis is a Colombian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Señorita Colombia 2009 and placed in the Top 15 at Miss Universe 2010.
Fuad Ricardo Char Abdala is a businessman and retired politician. He is the founder of Grupo Empresarial Olímpica. He served in different terms as a senator,governor of Atlántico,and minister of Economic Development
David Char Navas is a Colombian politician who served as Member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia from 2002 to 2006 and as Senator of Colombia from 2006 to 2008. He was forced to resign to his seat in the Senate due to controversies surrounding two incidents for which he was being investigated,the first related to a city contract that his company Los Ángeles Ltd signed with the then Mayor of Barranquilla Bernardo Hoyos Montoya;the second came to surface after his name appeared in a seized computer of Jorge 40,a paramilitary leader of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia.
Presidential elections were held in Colombia on 25 May 2014. Since no candidate received 50% of the vote in the first round,a run-off between the two candidates with the most votes took place three weeks later on 15 June 2014. According to the official figures released by the National Registry office,as of 22 May 2014 32,975,158 Colombians were registered and entitled to vote in the 2014 presidential election,including 545,976 Colombians resident abroad. Incumbent president Juan Manuel Santos was allowed to run for a second consecutive term. In the first round,Santos and Óscar Iván Zuluaga of the Democratic Center were the two highest-polling candidates and were the contestants in the 15 June run-off. In the second round,Santos was re-elected president,gaining 51% of the vote compared with 45% for Zuluaga.
Italian Colombians are Colombian-born citizens who are fully or partially of Italian descent,whose ancestors were Italians who emigrated to Colombia during the Italian diaspora,or Italian-born people in Colombia. Italians have been immigrating to Colombia since the early 16th century.
Claudia Nayibe López Hernández is a Colombian politician. She was a Senator of the Republic of Colombia and was the vice-presidential candidate in the 2018 presidential election for the Green Alliance party. In October 2019,she was elected mayor of Bogotá,the first woman and as well the first openly LGBT person to be elected to this position.
The 2027 Pan American Games,officially the XX Pan American Games,is an upcoming international multi-sport event governed by the Panam Sports Organization. It will be held for the second time in Peru's capital,Lima.
Mario Gareña,stage name of Jesús Arturo García Peña was a Colombian singer and composer. He was one of the most prolific singers of cumbia music and was known for the song Yo me llamo cumbia.
Titanes de Barranquilla is a Colombian professional basketball team based in Barranquilla. The team plays in the Baloncesto Profesional Colombiano,where it has won the championship a league-record eight times since the establishment of the team in 2018.
The 2022 Categoría Primera A season was the 75th season of the Categoría Primera A,Colombia's top-flight football league. The season began on 20 January and ended on 7 December 2022. Deportivo Cali were the defending champions,having won the 2021 Finalización tournament.
Jaime Alberto Pumarejo Heins is a Colombian information systems administrator and politician. From 2020 until 2023 he was the mayor of Barranquilla,the main economic center of the Caribbean region of Colombia and the fourth most populous city in the country.
